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The Ricci flow is a heat equation for metrics, which has recently been used to study the topology of closed three manifolds. In this paper we apply Ricci flow techniques to general relativity. We view a three dimensional asymptotically flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Joseph Samuel , Sutirtha Roy Chowdhury

We consider Lorentzian wormholes with a phantom field and chiral matter fields. The chiral fields are described by the non-linear sigma model with or without a Skyrme term. When the gravitational coupling of the chiral fields is increased,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-08 Efstathios Charalampidis , Theodora Ioannidou , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

In this paper it is proven that the volume entropy of a riemannian metric evolving by the Ricci flow, if does not collapse, nondecreases. Therefore, it provides a sufficient condition for a solution to collapse. Then, for the limit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Catalin C. Vasii

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

The current study deals with the new wormhole solutions in the background of fourth order new modified Ricci inverse gravity. Two new classes of the wormhole solutions are analyzed by showing the valid region for the main part of wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-27 G. Mustafa

In this paper we survey some results on Ricci flowing non-smooth initial data. Among other things, we give a non-exhaustive list of various weak initial data which can be evolved with the Ricci flow. We also survey results which show that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Miles Simon

We construct cylindrical, traversable wormholes with finite radii by taking into account the cut-and-paste procedure for the case of cosmic string manifolds with a positive cosmological constant. Under reasonable assumptions about the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-14 Martín G. Richarte

A new numerical framework, based on the use of a simple first order strongly hyperbolic evolution equations, is introduced and tested in case of 4-dimensional spherically symmetric gravitating systems. The analytic setup is chosen such that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 Peter Csizmadia , Istvan Racz

We study noncommutative Ricci flow in a finite dimensional representation of a noncommutative torus. It is shown that the flow exists and converges to the flat metric. We also consider the evolution of entropy and a definition of scalar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-10 Rocco Duvenhage

We study the Ricci flow on $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, with $n\geq 2$, starting at some complete bounded curvature rotationally symmetric metric $g_{0}$. We first focus on the case where $(\mathbb{R}^{n+1},g_{0})$ does not contain minimal…

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

In this paper, the author discusses the eigenvalues and entropies under the harmonic-Ricci flow, which is the Ricci flow coupled with the harmonic map flow. We give an alternative proof of results for compact steady and expanding…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Yi Li

We study wormhole geometries embedded in an expanding universe within a four-scalar non-linear $\sigma$ model, where the target-space metric is identified with the spacetime Ricci tensor. In this framework, wormholes can remain stable even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-16 Taishi Katsuragawa , Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

Imposing non-integrable constraints on Ricci flows of (pseudo) Riemannian metrics we model mutual transforms to, and from, non-Riemannian spaces. Such evolutions of geometries and physical theories can be modelled for nonholonomic manifolds…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-05-20 Sergiu I. Vacaru

In this article, we study the Ricci flow neckpinch in the context of metric measure spaces. We introduce the notion of a Ricci flow metric measure spacetime and of a weak (refined) super Ricci flow associated to convex cost functions (cost…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Sajjad Lakzian , Michael Munn

We explore the harmonic-Ricci flow---that is, Ricci flow coupled with harmonic map flow---both as it arises naturally in certain principal bundle constructions related to Ricci flow and as a geometric flow in its own right. We demonstrate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-12-18 Michael Bradford Williams

In this paper, we study the evolution of metrics on finite trees under continuous-time Ricci flows based on the Lin-Lu-Yau version of Ollivier Ricci curvature. We analyze long-time dynamics of edge weights and curvatures, providing precise…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Shuliang Bai , Bobo Hua , Yong Lin , Shuang Liu

In this paper we study the possibility of sustaining an evolving wormhole via exotic matter made of phantom energy in the presence of a cosmological constant. We derive analytical evolving wormhole geometries by supposing that the radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-16 Mauricio Cataldo , Sergio del Campo , Paul Minning , Patricio Salgado

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

In the Ellis wormhole metrics we study characteristics of fluid dynamics and the properties of linear sound waves. By implying the energy-momentum equation and the continuity equation in the general relativistic manner we examine the flow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 G. Butbaia , Z. N. Osmanov

We investigate the generic behaviour of marginally trapped tubes (roughly time-evolved apparent horizons) using simple, spherically symmetric examples of dust and scalar field collapse/accretion onto pre-existing black holes. We find that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Ivan Booth , Lionel Brits , Jose A. Gonzalez , Chris Van Den Broeck