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Backward Ricci Flow on Locally Homogeneous Three-manifolds

Differential Geometry 2009-03-02 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we study the backward Ricci flow on locally homogeneous 3-manifolds. We describe the long time behavior and show that, typically and after a proper re-scaling, there is convergence to a sub-Riemannian geometry. A similar behavior was observed by the authors in the case of the cross curvature flow.

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@article{arxiv.0810.3352,
  title  = {Backward Ricci Flow on Locally Homogeneous Three-manifolds},
  author = {Xiaodong Cao and Laurent Saloff-Coste},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3352},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17 pages, references added, final version

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