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We consider the normalized Ricci flow evolving from an initial metric which is conformally compactifiable and asymptotically hyperbolic. We show that there is a unique evolving metric which remains in this class, and that the flow exists up…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-07 Eric Bahuaud , Eric Woolgar

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 analyse second order (in Riemann curvature) geometric flows (un-normalised) on locally homogeneous three manifolds and look for specific features through the solutions (analytic whereever possible, otherwise numerical) of the evolution…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Sanjit Das , Kartik Prabhu , Sayan Kar

We analyze the geometry of the field equations of Cotton gravity (for a quite general energy-momentum tensor) on a static space-time. In particular, we describe the local structure of the spatial Riemannian factor. This structure, that we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Giulio Colombo , Filippo Mastropietro , Marco Rigoli

The Ricci flow on the 2-sphere with marked points is shown to converge in all three stable, semi-stable, and unstable cases. In the stable case, the flow was known to converge without any reparametrization, and a new proof of this fact is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-07 D. H. Phong , Jian Song , Jacob Sturm , Xiaowei Wang

In a number of physically important cases, the nonholonomically (nonintegrable) constrained Ricci flows can be modelled by exact solutions of Einstein equations with nonhomogeneous (anisotropic) cosmological constants. We develop two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-02-17 Sergiu I. Vacaru

In this paper we introduce and study a new kind of hyperbolic geometric flows --dissipative hyperbolic geometric flow. This kind of flow is defined by a system of quasilinear wave equations with dissipative terms. Some interesting exact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-18 Wen-Rong Dai , De-Xing Kong , Kefeng Liu

For homogeneous metrics on the spaces of the title it is shown that the Ricci flow can move a metric of stricly positive sectional curvature to one with some negative sectional curvature and one of positive definite Ricci tensor to one with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-16 Man-Wai Cheung , Nolan R. Wallach

We establish that $C^\infty$ three-dimensional flows with positive topological entropy admit only finitely many ergodic measures of maximal entropy, even when singularities (zero-velocity points) are present. Furthermore, every ergodic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Ming Li , Xingzhong Liu

We discuss a natural form of Ricci--flow conjugation between two distinct general relativistic data sets given on a compact $n\geq 3$-dimensional manifold $\Sigma$. We establish the existence of the relevant entropy functionals for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-15 Mauro Carfora

We study geometric modular flows in two-dimensional conformal field theories. We explore which states exhibit a geometric modular flow with respect to a causally complete subregion and, conversely, how to construct a state from a given…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-08 Jacqueline Caminiti , Federico Capeccia , Luca Ciambelli , Robert C. Myers

We consider 3d N>= 2 superconformal field theories on a branched covering of a three-sphere. The Renyi entropy of a CFT is given by the partition function on this space, but conical singularities break the supersymmetry preserved in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Tatsuma Nishioka , Itamar Yaakov

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

This paper studies the Ricci flow on closed manifolds admitting harmonic spinors. It is shown that Perelman's Ricci flow entropy can be expressed in terms of the energy of harmonic spinors in all dimensions, and in four dimensions, in terms…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Julius Baldauf

We investigate by direct numerical simulation Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in a rotating rectangular cell with rotation vector and gravity perpendicular to each other. The flow is two dimensional near the onset of convection with convection…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-12 K. Lüdemann , A. Tilgner

Near-critical quantum circuits are ideal physical systems for asymptotically large-scale quantum computers, because their low energy collective excitations evolve reversibly, effectively isolated from the environment. The design of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-01 Daniel Friedan

Quadratic flows have the unique property of uniform strain and are commonly used in turbulence modeling and hydrodynamic analysis. While previous application focused on two-dimensional homogeneous fluid, this study examines the geometric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-30 Che Sun

This paper attempts to construct monotonic entropy functionals for four-dimensional Lorentzian spacetime under physical boundary conditions, as an extension of Perelman's monotonic entropy functionals constructed for three-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-17 M. J. Luo

Newton flows are dynamical systems generated by a continuous, desingularized Newton method for mappings from a Euclidean space to itself. We focus on the special case of meromorphic functions on the complex plane. Inspired by the analogy…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-03-22 G. F. Helminck , F. Twilt

We develop a geometric foundation of microcanonical thermodynamics in which entropy and its derivatives are determined from the geometry of phase space, rather than being introduced through an a priori ensemble postulate. Once the minimal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-30 Loris Di Cairano