The Cotton tensor and the Ricci flow
Differential Geometry
2018-11-14 v3
Abstract
We compute the evolution equation of the Cotton and the Bach tensor under the Ricci flow of a Riemannian manifold, with particular attention to the three dimensional case, and we discuss some applications.
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@article{arxiv.1203.4433,
title = {The Cotton tensor and the Ricci flow},
author = {Carlo Mantegazza and Samuele Mongodi and Michele Rimoldi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.4433},
year = {2018}
}
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28 pages