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Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-28 Timothy Buttsworth , Maximilien Hallgren , Yongjia Zhang

We study the Ricci flow on $\mathbb{R}^{4}$ starting at an SU(2)-cohomogeneity 1 metric $g_{0}$ whose restriction to any hypersphere is a Berger metric. We prove that if $g_{0}$ has no necks and is bounded by a cylinder, then the solution…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Francesco Di Giovanni

We consider Ricci flow invariant cones C in the space of curvature operators lying between nonnegative Ricci curvature and nonnegative curvature operator. Assuming some mild control on the scalar curvature of the Ricci flow, we show that if…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-04 Thomas Richard

With respect to any special boundary defining function, a conformally compact asymptotically hyperbolic metric has an asymptotic expansion near its conformal infinity. If this expansion is even to a certain order and satisfies one extra…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Eric Bahuaud , Rafe Mazzeo , Eric Woolgar

We demonstrate that any four-dimensional shrinking Ricci soliton $(\mathcal B \times {\mathbb S^2}, g)$, where $\mathcal B$ is any two-dimensional complete noncompact surface and $g$ is a warped product metric over the base $\mathcal B$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-13 James Isenberg , Dan Knopf , Zilu Ma , Natasa Sesum

We show that a complete Ricci flow of bounded curvature which begins from a manifold with a Ricci lower bound, local entropy bound, and small local scale-invariant integral curvature control will have global point-wise curvature control at…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Pak-Yeung Chan , Eric Chen , Man-Chun Lee

We introduce a natural extension of the concept of gradient Ricci soliton: the Ricci almost soliton. We provide existence and rigidity results, we deduce a-priori curvature estimates and isolation phenomena, and we investigate some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-15 Stefano Pigola , Marco Rigoli , Michele Rimoldi , Alberto G. Setti

For an immortal Ricci flow on an $m$-dimensional $(m\ge 3)$ closed manifold, we show the following convergence results: (1) if the curvature and diameter are uniformly bounded, then any unbounded sequence of time slices sub-converges to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Shaosai Huang

In this paper we present some results on a family of geometric flows introduced by Bourguignon that generalize the Ricci flow. For suitable values of the scalar parameter involved in these flows, we prove short time existence and provide…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Giovanni Catino , Laura Cremaschi , Zindine Djadli , Carlo Mantegazza , Lorenzo Mazzieri

This article is a continuation of [CMZ21b], where we proved that a Ricci flow with a closed and smooth tangent flow has unique tangent flow, and its corresponding forward or backward modified Ricci flow converges in the rate of $t^{-\beta}$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Pak-Yeung Chan , Zilu Ma , Yongjia Zhang

In this paper, we introduce a new notion of curvature on the edges of a graph that is defined in terms of effective resistances. We call this the Ricci--Foster curvature. We study the Ricci flow resulting from this curvature. We prove the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Aleyah Dawkins , Vishal Gupta , Mark Kempton , William Linz , Jeremy Quail , Harry Richman , Zachary Stier

We discuss the Ricci flow on homogeneous 4-manifolds. After classifying these manifolds, we note that there are families of initial metrics such that we can diagonalize them and the Ricci flow preserves the diagonalization. We analyze the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 James Isenberg , Martin Jackson , Peng Lu

In this note, we obtain a sharp volume estimate for complete gradient Ricci solitons with scalar curvature bounded below by a positive constant. Using Chen-Yokota's argument we obtain a local lower bound estimate of the scalar curvature for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-02 Shijin Zhang

We derive identities for general flows of Riemannian metrics that may be regarded as local mean-value, monotonicity, or Lyapunov formulae. These generalize previous work of the first author for mean curvature flow and other nonlinear…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Klaus Ecker , Dan Knopf , Lei Ni , Peter Topping

We generalize most of the known Ricci flow invariant non-negative curvature conditions to less restrictive negative bounds that remain sufficiently controlled for a short time. As an illustration of the contents of the paper, we prove that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-26 Richard H. Bamler , Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Burkhard Wilking

Suppose $G$ is a compact Lie group, $H$ is a closed subgroup of $G$, and the homogeneous space $G/H$ is connected. The paper investigates the Ricci flow on a manifold $M$ diffeomorphic to $[0,1]\times G/H$. First, we prove a short-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Artem Pulemotov

We develop some estimates under the Ricci flow and use these estimates to study the blowup rates of curvatures at singularities. As applications, we obtain some gap theorems: $\displaystyle \sup_X |Ric|$ and $\displaystyle \sqrt{\sup_X…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-27 Bing Wang

Along a Ricci flow solution on a closed manifold, we show that if Ricci curvature is uniformly bounded from below, then a scalar curvature integral bound is enough to extend flow. Moreover, this integral bound condition is optimal in some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bing Wang

We show uniqueness of Ricci flows starting at a surface of uniformly negative curvature, with the assumption that the flows become complete instantaneously. Together with the more general existence result proved in [10], this settles the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-22 Gregor Giesen , Peter M. Topping

In this paper we have introduced the notion of $*-$ Ricci flow and shown that $*-$ Ricci soliton which was introduced by Kakimakamis and Panagiotid in 2014, is a self similar soliton of the $*-$ Ricci flow. We have also find the deformation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Nirabhra Basu , Dipankar Debnath