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Proof.

The main part is to prove Item (1). We only prove the estimate by assuming the scale parameter r=1r=1. The estimate in the general case r∈(0,1)r\in(0,1) can be achieved by simple rescaling.

The proof is based on the explicit description of the Ck,αC^{k,\alpha}-regularity scale given by Proposition 4.18. Since we have shown that, under the rescalings

(4.291) g~=λ​(𝒙)2⋅g,\displaystyle\tilde{g}=\lambda(\bm{x})^{2}\cdot g,

the geodesic balls B1/2g~​(𝒙)B_{1/2}^{\tilde{g}}(\bm{x}) have uniformly bounded Ck,αC^{k,\alpha}-geometry (independent of TT) for each α∈(0,1)\alpha\in(0,1) and k∈{0,1}k\in\{0,1\}. So there is a uniform constant C>0C>0 (independent of TT) such that the standard Schauder estimate holds for every u∈𝔄u\in\mathfrak{A} and 𝒙∈ℳ̊​(T−,T+)\bm{x}\in\mathring{\mathcal{M}}(T_{-},T_{+}),

(4.292) ‖u‖Ck+2,α​(B1/4g~​(𝒙))≤C⁡(‖Δg~j​u‖Ck,α​(B1/2g~​(𝒙))+‖u‖C0​(B1/2g~​(𝒙))).\|u\|_{C^{k+2,\alpha}(B_{1/4}^{\tilde{g}}(\bm{x}))}\leq C\Big(\|\Delta_{\tilde{g}_{j}}u\|_{C^{k,\alpha}(B_{1/2}^{\tilde{g}}(\bm{x}))}+\|u\|_{C^{0}(B_{1/2}^{\tilde{g}}(\bm{x}))}\Big).

Then the desired weighted Schauder estimate (4.288) will be obtained after appropriately rescaling. The argument is rather standard. In fact, the only crucial point is to verify that for every 𝒙∈ℳ̊​(T−,T+)\bm{x}\in\mathring{\mathcal{M}}(T_{-},T_{+}), the weight function ρδ,ν,μ(k+α)\rho_{\delta,\nu,\mu}^{(k+\alpha)} is roughly a constant in the ball Bs⁡(𝒙)​(𝒙)B_{s(\bm{x})}(\bm{x}) in the sense that there is a uniform constant C>0C>0 such that for any 𝒚∈Bs⁡(𝒙)​(𝒙)\bm{y}\in B_{s(\bm{x})}(\bm{x}),

(4.293) C−1⋅ρδ,ν,μ(k+α)​(𝒙)≤ρδ,ν,μ(k+α)​(𝒚)≤C⋅ρδ,ν,μ(k+α)​(𝒙).C^{-1}\cdot\rho_{\delta,\nu,\mu}^{(k+\alpha)}(\bm{x})\leq\rho_{\delta,\nu,\mu}^{(k+\alpha)}(\bm{y})\leq C\cdot\rho_{\delta,\nu,\mu}^{(k+\alpha)}(\bm{x}).

The verifications of the above estimate essentially follows from Corollary 4.18.1 which is the Harnack inequality for the regularity scale. As a comparison, the detailed arguments in dimension 44 is given in Section 8 of [HSVZ18]. In the following, we only verify (4.293) in Region 𝐈𝟏\bf{I}_{1} and Region 𝐈𝟐\bf{I}_{2} as sample examples.

Region 𝐈𝟏\bf{I}_{1}:

By Proposition 4.18, the canonical scale in this case is chosen as 𝔰⁡(𝒙)=T1−nn\mathfrak{s}(\bm{x})=T^{\frac{1-n}{n}}, while the rescaling factor is λ⁡(𝒙)=Tn−1n\lambda(\bm{x})=T^{\frac{n-1}{n}} such that (ℳT,g~T,𝒙)(\mathcal{M}_{T},\tilde{g}_{T},\bm{x}) is close to the Riemann product ℂT​N,12×ℂn−2\mathbb{C}_{TN,1}^{2}\times\mathbb{C}^{n-2} in the pointed C2,αC^{2,\alpha}-topology for any α∈(0,1)\alpha\in(0,1), where ℂT​N,12\mathbb{C}_{TN,1}^{2} is the Ricci-flat Taub-NUT space. Then for k∈{0,1}k\in\{0,1\} and α∈(0,1)\alpha\in(0,1),

(4.294) ‖u‖Ck,α​(B1g~T​(𝒙))≤‖Δ​u‖C0,α​(B2g~T​(𝒙))+‖u‖C0​(B2g~T​(𝒙)).\|u\|_{C^{k,\alpha}(B_{1}^{\tilde{g}_{T}}(\bm{x}))}\leq\|\Delta u\|_{C^{0,\alpha}(B_{2}^{\tilde{g}_{T}}(\bm{x}))}+\|u\|_{C^{0}(B_{2}^{\tilde{g}_{T}}(\bm{x}))}.

Since the weight function, by definition, is constant in the geodesic ball Bs⁡(𝒙)​(𝒙)B_{s(\bm{x})}(\bm{x}) for s⁡(𝒙)=14​𝔰​(𝒙)s(\bm{x})=\frac{1}{4}\mathfrak{s}(\bm{x}). With respect to the original metric, the standard Schauder estimate (4.292) for uu is equivalent to

(4.295) ∑m=0k+2‖ρδ,ν,μ(m)⋅∇mu‖C0​(Bs⁡(𝒙)​(𝒙))+[ρδ,ν,μ(k+2+α)⋅∇k+2u]Cα​(Bs⁡(𝒙)​(𝒙))≤C⁡(‖ρδ,ν+2,μ(0)⋅Δ​u‖C0​(B2​s​(𝒙)​(𝒙))+[Δ​u]Cδ,ν+2,μ0,α​(B2​s​(𝒙)​(𝒙))+‖ρδ,ν,μ(0)⋅u‖C0​(B2​s​(𝒙)​(𝒙))).\displaystyle\begin{split}&\sum\limits_{m=0}^{k+2}\|\rho_{\delta,\nu,\mu}^{(m)}\cdot\nabla^{m}u\|_{C^{0}(B_{s(\bm{x})}(\bm{x}))}+[\rho_{\delta,\nu,\mu}^{(k+2+\alpha)}\cdot\nabla^{k+2}u]_{C^{\alpha}(B_{s(\bm{x})}(\bm{x}))}\\ \leq&C\Big(\|\rho_{\delta,\nu+2,\mu}^{(0)}\cdot\Delta u\|_{C^{0}(B_{2s(\bm{x})}(\bm{x}))}+[\Delta u]_{C_{\delta,\nu+2,\mu}^{0,\alpha}(B_{2s(\bm{x})}(\bm{x}))}+\|\rho_{\delta,\nu,\mu}^{(0)}\cdot u\|_{C^{0}(B_{2s(\bm{x})}(\bm{x}))}\Big).\end{split}

Therefore, by the definition of the weighted Hölder space,

(4.296) ‖u‖Cδ,ν,μk+2,α​(Bs⁡(𝒙)​(𝒙))≤C⁡(‖Δ​u‖Cδ,ν+1,μ0,α​(B2​s​(𝒙)​(𝒙))+‖u‖Cδ,ν,μ0​(B2​s​(𝒙)​(𝒙))).\displaystyle\|u\|_{C_{\delta,\nu,\mu}^{k+2,\alpha}(B_{s(\bm{x})}(\bm{x}))}\leq C\Big(\|\Delta u\|_{C_{\delta,\nu+1,\mu}^{0,\alpha}(B_{2s(\bm{x})}(\bm{x}))}+\|u\|_{C_{\delta,\nu,\mu}^{0}(B_{2s(\bm{x})}(\bm{x}))}\Big).

The proof in Region 𝐈𝟏\bf{I}_{1} is done.

Region 𝐈𝟐\bf{I}_{2}:

Proposition 4.18 tells us that, in this region, 𝔰⁡(𝒙)=T1n⋅r⁡(𝒙)\mathfrak{s}(\bm{x})=T^{\frac{1}{n}}\cdot r(\bm{x}) and the metric is rescaled by λ⁡(𝒙)=𝔰​(𝒙)−1\lambda(\bm{x})=\mathfrak{s}(\bm{x})^{-1} with

(4.297) g~=λ​(𝒙)2​g.\tilde{g}=\lambda(\bm{x})^{2}g.

We notice that the values ρδ,ν,μ(k+α)​(𝒚)\rho_{\delta,\nu,\mu}^{(k+\alpha)}(\bm{y}) for all 𝒚∈B2​s​(𝒙)​(𝒙)\bm{y}\in B_{2s(\bm{x})}(\bm{x}) are uniformly equivalent. Indeed, by Corollary 4.18.1, we can see that for every 𝒚∈B2​s​(𝒙)​(𝒙)\bm{y}\in B_{2s(\bm{x})}(\bm{x}),

(4.298) 12​(v¯0)ν+k+α≤ρδ,ν,μ(k+α)​(𝒚)ρδ,ν,μ(k+α)​(𝒙)≤32​(v¯0)ν+k+α.\frac{1}{2}(\underline{v}_{0})^{\nu+k+\alpha}\leq\frac{\rho_{\delta,\nu,\mu}^{(k+\alpha)}(\bm{y})}{\rho_{\delta,\nu,\mu}^{(k+\alpha)}(\bm{x})}\leq\frac{3}{2}(\overline{v}_{0})^{\nu+k+\alpha}.

So the standard Schauder estimate (4.292) for u~\tilde{u} is equivalent to the following estimate for uu, is equivalent to

∑m=0k+2‖ρδ,ν,μ(m)⋅∇mu‖C0​(Bs⁡(𝒙)​(𝒙))+‖ρδ,ν,μ(k+2+α)⋅∇k+2u‖C0,α​((Bs⁡(𝒙)​(𝒙)))\displaystyle\sum\limits_{m=0}^{k+2}\|\rho_{\delta,\nu,\mu}^{(m)}\cdot\nabla^{m}u\|_{C^{0}(B_{s(\bm{x})}(\bm{x}))}+\|\rho_{\delta,\nu,\mu}^{(k+2+\alpha)}\cdot\nabla^{k+2}u\|_{C^{0,\alpha}((B_{s(\bm{x})}(\bm{x})))}
(4.299) ≤\displaystyle\leq C⁡(‖ρδ,ν+2,μ(0)⋅Δ​u‖C0​(B2​s​(𝒙)​(𝒙))+[Δ​u]Cδ,ν+2,μ0,α​(B2​s​(𝒙)​(𝒙))+‖ρδ,ν,μ(0)⋅u‖C0​((B2​s​(𝒙)​(𝒙)))).\displaystyle C\Big(\|\rho_{\delta,\nu+2,\mu}^{(0)}\cdot\Delta u\|_{C^{0}(B_{2s(\bm{x})}(\bm{x}))}+[\Delta u]_{C_{\delta,\nu+2,\mu}^{0,\alpha}(B_{2s(\bm{x})}(\bm{x}))}+\|\rho_{\delta,\nu,\mu}^{(0)}\cdot u\|_{C^{0}((B_{2s(\bm{x})}(\bm{x})))}\Big).

Therefore, by the definition of the weighted norm, the required estimate immediately follows.

For the remaining regions, the key point in the proof is in fact the same, which just requires to show that the values of the weight function at the points within the Ck,αC^{k,\alpha}-regularity scale are uniformly equivalent. So we just skip the proof.

Now we switch to prove Item (2), which can be obtained by contradiction. Suppose there is no such a constant C𝒫>0C_{\mathcal{P}}>0. Then there are a sequence of numbers Tj>0T_{j}>0 and reference points 𝒙j∈ℳTj\bm{x}_{j}\in\mathcal{M}_{T_{j}} such that

(4.300) r⁡(𝒙j)⋅Tj→+∞,r(\bm{x}_{j})\cdot T_{j}\to+\infty,

but the uniform local Schauder estimate (4.288) does not hold around 𝒙j∈ℳTj\bm{x}_{j}\in\mathcal{M}_{T_{j}}. Under the contradicting assumption (4.300), Proposition 4.18 shows that, with respect to the rescaled metrics we choose, we will obtain one of the following rescaled Gromov-Hausdorff limits depending upon the location of 𝒙j\bm{x}_{j} in the subdivision:

  1. (i)

    The Euclidean product ℝ3×ℂn−2\mathbb{R}^{3}\times\mathbb{C}^{n-2},

  2. (ii)

    The cylinder D×ℝD\times\mathbb{R},

  3. (iii)

    The Calabi space (𝒞−n,g𝒞−n,𝒙−)(\mathcal{C}_{-}^{n},g_{\mathcal{C}_{-}^{n}},\bm{x}_{-}) or (𝒞+n,g𝒞+n,𝒙+)(\mathcal{C}_{+}^{n},g_{\mathcal{C}_{+}^{n}},\bm{x}_{+}).

Moreover, away from the singularity, the convergence is Ck,αC^{k,\alpha} for any k∈ℤ+k\in\mathbb{Z}_{+} and α∈(0,1)\alpha\in(0,1) by passing to the local universal cover.

First, if the convergence keeps the Ck,αC^{k,\alpha}-geometry uniformly bounded, then the proof of the higher order estimate is just standard and routine.

Now let 𝒙j\bm{x}_{j} stay in the regions giving the rescaled limits in (i) and (ii). Recall the discussions in Section 4.3 that, in Case (b), (c) in Region 𝐈𝟐\bf{I}_{2} and Case (a) in Region 𝐈𝟑\bf{I}_{3}, singularity behavior appears in the Gromov-Hausdorff procedure. With respect to the rescaled metric g~j=λ​(𝒙j)−2​gj\tilde{g}_{j}=\lambda(\bm{x}_{j})^{-2}g_{j}, the limiting geodesic ball B12g~j​(𝒙j)B_{\frac{1}{2}}^{\tilde{g}_{j}}(\bm{x}_{j}) never contains the singularity. So it follows that every point 𝒚∈B12g~j​(𝒙j)\bm{y}\in B_{\frac{1}{2}}^{\tilde{g}_{j}}(\bm{x}_{j}) has a Ck,αC^{k,\alpha}-regularity scale rk,α​(𝒚)≥ρ0>0r_{k,\alpha}(\bm{y})\geq\rho_{0}>0 for all k∈ℤ+k\in\mathbb{Z}_{+} and α∈(0,1)\alpha\in(0,1). So the standard interior Schauder estimate reads as follows,

(4.301) ‖u‖Ck+2,α​(B14​(𝒙j))≤Ck,α⋅(‖Δ​u‖Ck,α​(B12​(𝒙j))+‖u‖Ck​(B12​(𝒙j))),\|u\|_{C^{k+2,\alpha}(B_{\frac{1}{4}}(\bm{x}_{j}))}\leq C_{k,\alpha}\cdot\Big(\|\Delta u\|_{C^{k,\alpha}(B_{\frac{1}{2}}(\bm{x}_{j}))}+\|u\|_{C^{k}(B_{\frac{1}{2}}(\bm{x}_{j}))}\Big),

for all k∈ℤ+k\in\mathbb{Z}_{+} and α∈(0,1)\alpha\in(0,1). Rescaling back to the original metrics gjg_{j}, we obtain the desired weighted Schauder estimate for sufficiently large jj. So the contradiction arises. This completes the proof of Item (2).

The proof of Item (3) follows from the Schauder estimate for Neumann boundary problem. As before, we only consider the case r=1r=1 for simplicity. The tubular neighborhood T2​(∂ℳT)T_{2}(\partial\mathcal{M}_{T}) belongs to Case (c) of Region 𝐈𝟑\bf{I}_{3}. We only consider the left boundary {T=T−}\{T=T_{-}\}. For every 𝒙∈{T=T−}\bm{x}\in\{T=T_{-}\}, we choose the rescaled metric g~=λ​(𝒙)2⋅g\tilde{g}=\lambda(\bm{x})^{2}\cdot g with

(4.302) λ⁡(𝒙)=(LT​(T−))−12⋅Tn−22​n=(c−)12,\lambda(\bm{x})=(L_{T}(T_{-}))^{-\frac{1}{2}}\cdot T^{\frac{n-2}{2n}}=(c_{-})^{\frac{1}{2}},

where c−>0c_{-}>0 is a fixed constant. The analysis in Section 4.3 tells us that, for T≫1T\gg 1 sufficiently large, (ℳT,g~,𝒙)(\mathcal{M}_{T},\tilde{g},\bm{x}) is Gromov-Hausdorff close to a fixed incomplete Calabi space (𝒞−n,g𝒞−n,𝒙∞)(\mathcal{C}_{-}^{n},g_{\mathcal{C}_{-}^{n}},\bm{x}_{\infty}). Moreover, the tubular neighborhood T2​(∂MT)T_{2}(\partial M_{T}) satisfies the following property: there are constants ρ0>0\rho_{0}>0 depending only the conjugate radius of (𝒞−n,g𝒞−n,𝒙∞)(\mathcal{C}_{-}^{n},g_{\mathcal{C}_{-}^{n}},\bm{x}_{\infty}) such that every point 𝒚∈T2​(∂MT)\bm{y}\in T_{2}(\partial M_{T}) satisfies the regularity scale estimate rk,α​(𝒚)≥ρ0>0r_{k,\alpha}(\bm{y})\geq\rho_{0}>0 for all k∈ℤ+k\in\mathbb{Z}_{+} and α∈(0,1)\alpha\in(0,1).

The above geometric regularity implies the following uniform boundary Schauder estimate in B2+​(𝒙)B_{2}^{+}(\bm{x}) for each 𝒙∈∂ℳT\bm{x}\in\partial\mathcal{M}_{T},

(4.303) ‖u‖Cδ,ν,μk+2,α​(B14+​(𝒙))≤Ck,α​(‖Δ​u‖Cδ,ν+2,μk,α​(B12+​(𝒙))+‖∂u∂n‖Cδ,ν,μk+1,α​(B12+​(𝒙))+‖u‖Cδ,ν,μ0​(B12+​(𝒙))),\displaystyle\|u\|_{C_{\delta,\nu,\mu}^{k+2,\alpha}(B_{\frac{1}{4}}^{+}(\bm{x}))}\leq C_{k,\alpha}\Big(\|\Delta u\|_{C_{\delta,\nu+2,\mu}^{k,\alpha}(B_{\frac{1}{2}}^{+}(\bm{x}))}+\Big\|\frac{\partial u}{\partial n}\Big\|_{C_{\delta,\nu,\mu}^{k+1,\alpha}(B_{\frac{1}{2}}^{+}(\bm{x}))}+\|u\|_{C_{\delta,\nu,\mu}^{0}(B_{\frac{1}{2}}^{+}(\bm{x}))}\Big),

Here ∂∂n\frac{\partial}{\partial n} is the exterior normal vector field, and the constant Ck,α>0C_{k,\alpha}>0 depends only on kk, α\alpha, ρ0\rho_{0}. This estimate is standard in the literature (see Section 6 of [GT01] for instance). By rescaling, we obtain the desired weighted estimate.

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