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The Ricci flow on a cylinder

Differential Geometry 2016-04-08 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study the Ricci flow on surfaces homeomorphic to a cylinder (that is, a product of the circle with a compact interval). We prove longtime existence results, results on the asymptotic behavior of the flow, and we report on an interesting phenomenon: convergence to constant curvature in the normalised flow,under certain assumptions on the initial data, cannot be exponential.

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@article{arxiv.1604.02132,
  title  = {The Ricci flow on a cylinder},
  author = {Jean Cortissoz and Alexander Murcia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.02132},
  year   = {2016}
}

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