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Nonholonomic Ricci Flows and Running Cosmological Constant: I. 4D Taub-NUT Metrics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

In this work we construct and analyze exact solutions describing Ricci flows and nonholonomic deformations of four dimensional (4D) Taub-NUT spacetimes. It is outlined a new geometric techniques of constructing Ricci flow solutions. Some conceptual issues on spacetimes provided with generic off-diagonal metrics and associated nonlinear connection structures are analyzed. The limit from gravity/Ricci flow models with nontrivial torsion to configurations with the Levi-Civita connection is allowed in some specific physical circumstances by constraining the class of integral varieties for the Einstein and Ricci flow equations.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0609085,
  title  = {Nonholonomic Ricci Flows and Running Cosmological Constant: I. 4D Taub-NUT Metrics},
  author = {Sergiu I. Vacaru and Mihai Visinescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0609085},
  year   = {2008}
}

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