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In this article we get a time-dependent Sobolev inequality along the Ricci flow which generalizes the earlier results of Zhang, Ye, Hsu. As an application of the time-dependent Sobolev inequality, we also get a growth of the ratio of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-19 Chengjie Yu

We introduce two new functionals on Sasaki manifolds, inspired by the work of Perelman, which are monotonic along the Sasaki-Ricci flow. We relate their gradient flow, via diffeomorphisms preserving the foliated structure of the manifold,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-08 Tristan C. Collins

We extend our previous results on the logarithmic Sobolev inequality along the Ricci flow in the case $\lambda_0(g_0)>0$ to the case $\lambda_0(g_0)=0$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-08-16 Rugang Ye

In this note, we want to establish several formulas about functionals along harmonic Ricci flow on surface with boundary

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Xiang-Zhi Cao

We study the Ricci flow for initial metrics which are C^0 small perturbations of the Euclidean metric on R^n. In the case that this metric is asymptotically Euclidean, we show that a Ricci harmonic map heat flow exists for all times, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-05 Oliver C. Schnürer , Felix Schulze , Miles Simon

This article reports recent developments of the research on Hamilton's Ricci flow and its applications.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Huai-Dong Cao , Bennett Chow

We simplify the proof of some widely used theoretical theorems, extending their applicability, while correcting some erroneous results. We also generalize key results and present new results that contribute to the development of the theory.…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-02 V. E. Sándor Szabó

We establish the short-time existence of the Ricci flow on surfaces with a finite number of conic points, all with cone angle between 0 and $2\pi$, where the cone angles remain fixed or change in some smooth prescribed way. For the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Rafe Mazzeo , Yanir A. Rubinstein , Natasa Sesum

In 2004, Manning showed that the topological entropy of the geodesic flow for a surface of negative curvature decreases as the metric evolves under the normalised Ricci flow. It is an interesting open problem, also due to Manning, to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-12-18 Daniel J. Thompson

We investigate a new geometric flow which consists of a coupled system of the Ricci flow on a closed manifold M with the harmonic map flow of a map phi from M to some closed target manifold N with a (possibly time-dependent) positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Reto Müller

We develop different synthetic notions of Ricci flow in the setting of time-dependent metric measure spaces based on ideas from optimal transport. They are formulated in terms of dynamic convexity and local concavity of the entropy along…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Matthias Erbar , Zhenhao Li , Timo Schultz

In this paper, we first introduce the weighted forward reduced volume of Ricci flow. The weighted forward reduced volume, which related to expanders of Ricci flow, is well-defined on noncompact manifolds and monotone non-increasing under…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-21 Liang Cheng , Anqiang Zhu

In this paper, we introduce a class of new logarithmic curvature flow. The flows are designed to embrace the monotonicity of the related functional, and the convergence of this flow would tackle the solvability of the weighted…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Jinrong Hu , Qiongfang Mao

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

We consider a normalization of the Ricci flow on a closed Riemannian manifold given by the evolution equation $\partial_{t}g(t)=-2(Ric(g(t))-\frac{1}{2\tau}g(t))$ where $\tau$ is a fixed positive number. Assuming that a solution for this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Antonio G. Ache

We study the behavior of the normalized Ricci flow of invariant Riemannian homogeneous metrics at infinity for generalized Wallach spaces, generalized flag manifolds with four isotropy summands and second Betti number equal to one, and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Marina Statha

In this paper we introduce a new logarithmic entropy functional for the linear heat equation on complete Riemannian manifolds and prove that it is monotone decreasing on complete Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. Our…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-08 Jia-Yong Wu

We show that a certain entropy-like function is convex, under an optimal transport problem that is adapted to Ricci flow. We use this to reprove the monotonicity of Perelman's reduced volume.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-01-09 John Lott

In statistical physics, entropy is generally logarithm of probability. Therefore, if dynamics is decomposed by log, entropy production should be decomposed properly. In the present work, log-decomposition of dynamics is introduced. By which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-30 Jang-il Sohn

We introduce a dynamical energy functional on compact ancient asymptotically Ricci-flat Ricci flows with modest decay using limits of conjugate heat flows. This functional satisfies a steady Ricci breather-type rigidity and provides an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Isaac M. Lopez , Rio Schillmoeller