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Evolution of Ricci scalar under Finsler Ricci flow

Differential Geometry 2015-08-14 v1

Abstract

Recently, we have studied evolution of a family of Finsler metrics along Finsler Ricci flow and proved its convergence in short time. Here, evolution equation of the reduced hhhh-curvature and the Ricci scalar along the Finslerian Ricci flow is obtained and it is proved that the Ricci flow preserves positivity of reduced hhhh-curvature on finite time. Next, it is shown that the evolution of Ricci scalar is a parabolic-type equation and if the initial Finsler metric is of positive flag curvature, then the flag curvature and the Ricci scalar remain positive as long as the solution exists. Finally, a lower bound for the Ricci scalar along the Ricci flow is obtained.

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@article{arxiv.1508.03041,
  title  = {Evolution of Ricci scalar under Finsler Ricci flow},
  author = {B. Bidabad and M. K. Sedaghat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.03041},
  year   = {2015}
}

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17 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1508.02893