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Stability of the Ricci Yang-Mills flow at Einstein Yang-Mills metrics

Differential Geometry 2008-12-11 v1

Abstract

Let PP be a principal U(1)-bundle over a closed manifold MM. On PP, one can define a modified version of the Ricci flow called the Ricci Yang-Mills flow, due to these equations being a coupling of Ricci flow and the Yang-Mills heat flow. We use maximal regularity theory and ideas of Simonett concerning the asymptotic behavior of abstract quasilinear parabolic partial differential equations to study the stability of the volume-normalized Ricci Yang-Mills flow at Einstein Yang-Mills metrics in dimension two. In certain cases, we show the presence of a center manifold of fixed points, while in others, we show the existence of an asymptotically stable fixed point.

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@article{arxiv.0812.1823,
  title  = {Stability of the Ricci Yang-Mills flow at Einstein Yang-Mills metrics},
  author = {Andrea Young},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.1823},
  year   = {2008}
}

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16 pages