Gromov and Sormani conjectured that sequences of compact Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature and area of minimal surfaces bounded below should have subsequences which converge in the intrinsic flat sense to limit spaces which have nonnegative generalized scalar curvature and Euclidean tangent cones almost everywhere. In this paper we prove this conjecture for sequences of rotationally symmetric warped product manifolds. We show that the limit spaces have H 1 warping function that has nonnegative scalar curvature in a weak sense, and have Euclidean tangent cones almost everywhere.

We give a natural way to identify between two scales, potentially arbitrarily far apart, in a non-compact Ricci-flat manifold with Euclidean volume growth when a tangent cone at infinity has smooth cross section. The identification map is given as the gradient flow of a solution to an elliptic equation.

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