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Let ${\bf M}$ be a compact Riemannian manifold and the metrics $g=g(t)$ evolve by the Ricci flow. We prove the following result. The Sobolev imbedding by Aubin or Hebey, perturbed by a scalar curvature term and modulo sharpness of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-08-29 Qi S. Zhang

In this article, functional inequalities for diffusion semigroups on Riemannian manifolds (possibly with boundary) are established, which are equivalent to pinched Ricci curvature, along with gradient estimates, $L^p$-inequalities and…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Li-Juan Cheng , Anton Thalmaier

We introduce singular Ricci flows, which are Ricci flow spacetimes subject to certain asymptotic conditions. We consider the behavior of Ricci flow with surgery starting from a fixed initial compact Riemannian 3-manifold, as the surgery…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Bruce Kleiner , John Lott

We introduce certain spherically symmetric singular Ricci solitons and study their stability under the Ricci flow from a dynamical PDE point of view. The solitons in question exist for all dimensions $n+1\ge 3$, and all have a point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-25 Spyros Alexakis , Dezhong Chen , Grigorios Fournodavlos

The stability of a recently developed piecewise flat Ricci flow is investigated, using a linear stability analysis and numerical simulations, and a class of piecewise flat approximations of smooth manifolds is adapted to avoid an inherent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Rory Conboye

In this paper, we study the monotonicity of parabolic frequency motivated by \cite{frequency on RF} under the Ricci flow and the Ricci-harmonic flow on manifolds. Here we consider two cases: one is the monotonicity of parabolic frequency…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Chuanhuan Li , Yi Li , Kairui Xu

In this work we construct and analyze exact solutions describing Ricci flows and nonholonomic deformations of four dimensional (4D) Taub-NUT spacetimes. It is outlined a new geometric techniques of constructing Ricci flow solutions. Some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergiu I. Vacaru , Mihai Visinescu

In this paper we study the behavior of the Ricci flow at infinity for the full flag manifold $SU(3)/T$ using techniques of the qualitative theory of differential equations, in special the Poincar\'e Compactification and Lyapunov exponents.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-31 Ricardo Miranda Martins , Lino Grama

We study Ricci flows on $R^n$, $n\ge 3$, that evolve from asymptotically flat initial data. Under mild conditions on the initial data, we show that the flow exists and remains asymptotically flat for an interval of time. The mass is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-09 T. Oliynyk , E. Woolgar

In this paper we study the global behavior of the Ricci flow equation for two classes of homogeneous manifolds with two isotropy summands. Using methods of the qualitative theory of differential equations, we present the global phase…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-20 Ricardo Miranda Martins , Lino Grama

In this paper, we investigate the complete monotonicity of R\'enyi entropy along the heat flow. We confirm this property for the order of derivative up to $4$, when the order of R\'enyi entropy is in certain regimes. We also investigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Hao Wu , Lei Yu , Laigang Guo

In this paper, we study the Ricci flow on a closed manifold and finite time interval $[0,T)~(T < \infty)$ on which certain integral curvature energies are finite. We prove that in dimension four, such flow converges to a smooth Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Shota Hamanaka

We give a global picture of the Ricci flow on the space of three-dimensional, unimodular, nonabelian metric Lie algebras considered up to isometry and scaling. The Ricci flow is viewed as a two-dimensional dynamical system for the evolution…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-22 David Glickenstein , Tracy L. Payne

In this paper, we establish a Lojasiewicz inequality for the pointed $\mathcal{W}$-entropy in the Ricci flow, under the assumption that the geometry near the base point is close to a standard cylinder $\mathbb{R}^k \times S^{n-k}$ or the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Hanbing Fang , Yu Li

We derive modified Perelman-type monotonicity formulas for solutions to the generalized Ricci flow equation with symmetry on principal bundles, which lead to rigidity and classification results for nonsingular solutions.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-22 Steven Gindi , Jeffrey Streets

Inspired by work of Colding-Minicozzi on mean curvature flow, Zhang introduced a notion of entropy stability for harmonic map flow. We build further upon this work in several directions. First we prove the equivalence of entropy stability…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-17 Jess Boling , Casey Lynn Kelleher , Jeffrey Streets

We review different notions of synthetic Ricci flow that apply to time-dependent families of metric measure spaces and which are based on properties of the heat flow, ideas from optimal transport, and the asymptotic behaviour of volumes.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Matthias Erbar , Marco Flaim , Eric Hupp , Zhenhao Li , Timo Schultz , Karl-Theodor Sturm

In this paper, we prove that the first eigenvalues of $-\Delta + cR$ ($c\geq \frac14$) is nondecreasing under the Ricci flow. We also prove the monotonicity under the normalized flow for the case $c=1/4$, and $r\le 0$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-21 Xiaodong Cao

In this article we study the short-time existence of conformal Ricci flow on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. We also prove a local Shi's type curvature derivative estimate for conformal Ricci flow.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-12 Peng Lu , Jie Qing , Yu Zheng

We propose a stochastic dynamics to be associated to a deterministic motion defined by a set of first order differential equation. The transitions that defined the stochastic dynamics are unidirectional and the rates are equal to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-13 Mário J. de Oliveira