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In this work we investigate Ricci flows of almost Kaehler structures on Lie algebroids when the fundamental geometric objects are completely determined by (semi) Riemannian metrics, or effective) regular generating Lagrange/ Finsler,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-25 Sergiu I. Vacaru

The gravitational field equations in general relativity (GR) consist of a sophisticated system of nonlinear partial differential equations. Solving such equations in some generic off-diagonal forms is usually a hard analytic or numeric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-18 Sergiu I. Vacaru , Elşen V. Veliev

We introduce a novel curvature flow, the Heterotic-Ricci flow, as the two-loop renormalization group flow of the Heterotic string common sector and study its three-dimensional compact solitons. The Heterotic-Ricci flow is a coupled…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Andrei Moroianu , Ángel J. Murcia , C. S. Shahbazi

If we want to deform a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary using Ricci flow, we first need to decide on appropriate boundary conditions. We would like these conditions to reflect the geometric nature of the flow and allow for a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Rasmus Jouttijärvi

In this paper the authors study the hyperbolic geometric flow on Riemann surfaces. This new nonlinear geometric evolution equation was recently introduced by the first two authors motivated by Einstein equation and Hamilton's Ricci flow. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-09 De-Xing Kong , Kefeng Liu , De-Liang Xu

In this work, we apply the anholonomic deformation method for constructing new classes of anisotropic cosmological solutions in Einstein gravity and/or generalizations with nonholonomic variables. There are analyzed four types of, in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We show that the system of vacuum Einstein equations (i.e., Ricci-flat metrics) with two hypersurface-orthogonal, commuting Killing vector fields in $d \ge 5$ dimensions is invariant under the action of a one-parameter Lie group, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-18 M. M. Akbar , M. Self

We extend to a theory of nonassociative geometric flows a string-inspired model of nonassociative gravity determined by star product and R-flux deformations. The nonassociative Ricci tensor and curvature scalar defined by (non) symmetric…

General Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 Laurenţiu Bubuianu , Sergiu I. Vacaru , Elşen Veli Veliev

Ancient solutions arise in the study of Ricci flow singularities. Motivated by the work of Fateev on 3-dimensional ancient solutions we construct high dimensional ancient solutions to Ricci flow on spheres and complex projective spaces as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-14 Ioannis Bakas , Shengli Kong , Lei Ni

This paper is devoted to obtain the one-dimensional group invariant solutions of the two-dimensional Ricci flow ((2D) Rf) equation. By classifying the orbits of the adjoint representation of the symmetry group on its Lie algebra, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-04 Mehdi Nadjafikhah , Mehdi Jafari

We present new classes of exact solutions with noncommutative symmetries constructed in vacuum Einstein gravity (in general, with nonzero cosmological constant), five dimensional (5D) gravity and (anti) de Sitter gauge gravity. Such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Sergiu I. Vacaru

In this paper we investigate a kind of generalized Ricci flow which possesses a gradient form. We study the monotonicity of the given function under the generalized Ricci flow and prove that the related system of partial differential…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-19 Chun-lei He , Sen Hu , De-Xing Kong , Kefeng Liu

This article is a status report on the Anholonomic Frame and Connection Deformation Method, AFCDM, for constructing generic off-diagonal exact and parametric solutions in general relativity, GR, relativistic geometric flows, and modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-07 Laurenţiu Bubuianu , Julia O. Seti , Douglas Singleton , Panayiotis Stavrinos , Sergiu I. Vacaru , Elşen Veli Veliev

We study the Ricci flow for the Lorentzian Einstein-Hilbert action. We show that Einstein gravity emerges as a fixed point of the Einstein-Ricci flow equations and derive a renormalization group flow in Euclidean signature. By considering…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-05 Aditya Dhumuntarao

B List has proposed a geometric flow whose fixed points correspond to solutions of the static Einstein equations of general relativity. This flow is now known to be a certain Hamilton-DeTurck flow (the pullback of a Ricci flow by an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-03 L. Gulcev , T. A. Oliynyk , E. Woolgar

Models of geometric flows pertaining to $\mathcal{R}^2$ scale invariant (super) gravity theories coupled to conformally invariant matter fields are investigated. Related to this work are supersymmetric scalar manifolds that are isomorphic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-13 Subhash Rajpoot , Sergiu I. Vacaru

In order to resolve the cosmological constant problem, the notion of reference frame is re-examined at the quantum level. By using a quantum non-linear sigma model (Q-NLSM), a theory of quantum spacetime reference frame (QSRF) is proposed.…

General Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 M. J. Luo

We study anisotropic solutions for the pure $R^2$ gravity model with a scalar field in the Bianchi I metric. The evolution equations have a singularity at zero value of the Ricci scalar $R$ for anisotropic solutions, whereas these equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-01 Vsevolod R. Ivanov , Sergey Yu. Vernov

We show that for any solvable Lie group of real type, any homogeneous Ricci flow solution converges in Cheeger-Gromov topology to a unique non-flat solvsoliton, which is independent of the initial left-invariant metric. As an application,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Christoph Böhm , Ramiro A. Lafuente

This article grew out of the urge to realize explicit examples of solutions for the Ricci flow as families of isometrically embedded submanifolds, together with its Gromov-Hausdorff collapses. To this aim, we consider the Ricci flow of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Mauro Patrão , Lucas Seco , Llohann D. Sperança