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The quantization of the reduced phase-space of the Einstein-Hilbert action for gravity in $2+1D$ has been shown to bring about the emergence, at the quantum level, of a topological quantum field theory endowed with an $SU_q(2)$ quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Niels Gresnigt , Antonino Marciano , Emanuele Zappala

A theory of gravitation is proposed, modeled after the notion of a Ricci flow. In addition to the metric an independent volume enters as a fundamental geometric structure. Einstein gravity is included as a limiting case. Despite being a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Wolfgang Graf

This paper initiates a classification programme of flows of $\mathrm{SU}(2)$-structures on $4$-manifolds which have short-time existence and uniqueness. Our approach adapts a representation-theoretic method originally due to Bryant in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Udhav Fowdar , Henrique N. Sá Earp

In this article we introduce a new operator representing the three-dimensional scalar curvature in loop quantum gravity. Our construction does not apply to the entire kinematical Hilbert space of loop quantum gravity; instead, the operator…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-02 Jerzy Lewandowski , Ilkka Mäkinen

In order to reconcile the wave-function collapse in quantum mechanics with the finiteness of signals' propagation in general relativity, we delve into a stochastic version of the Ricci flow and study its non-relativistic limit in presence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-20 Matteo Lulli , Antonino Marciano , Kristian Piscicchia

Ricci flow deforms the Riemannian metric proportionally to the curvature, such that the curvature evolves according to a heat diffusion process and eventually becomes constant everywhere. Ricci flow has demonstrated its great potential by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-03-31 Min Zhang , Ren Guo , Wei Zeng , Feng Luo , Shing-Tung Yau , Xianfeng Gu

The space of states and operators for a large class of background independent theories of quantum spacetime dynamics is defined. The SU(2) spin networks of quantum general relativity are replaced by labelled compact two-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Fotini Markopoulou , Lee Smolin

Quantum mechanics of models is considered which are constructed in spaces with Lie algebra type commutation relations between spatial coordinates. The case is specialized to that of the group SU(2), for which the formulation of the problem…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-24 Amir H. Fatollahi , Ahmad Shariati , Mohammad Khorrami

We highlight the structure and properties of an abstract approach to quantum cosmology and gravity, dubbed $SU(\infty)$-QGR. Beginning from the concept of the Universe as an isolated quantum system, the main axiom of is the existence of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-27 Houri Ziaeepour

The meaning of quantum group transformation properties is discussed in some detail by comparing the (co)actions of the quantum group with those of the corresponding Lie group, both of which have the same algebraic (matrix) form of the…

q-alg · Mathematics 2016-11-03 M. Chaichian , P. P. Kulish

Gradient flow in a potential energy (or Euclidean action) landscape provides a natural set of paths connecting different saddle points. We apply this method to General Relativity, where gradient flow is Ricci flow, and focus on the example…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthew Headrick , Toby Wiseman

We present a new curvature condition which is preserved by the Ricci flow in higher dimensions. For initial metrics satisfying this condition, we establish a higher dimensional version of Hamilton's neck-like curvature pinching estimate.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-15 S. Brendle

We continue the study of topological nonrelativistic quantum gravity associated with a family of Ricci flow equations on Riemannian manifolds. This topological gravity is of the cohomological type, and it exhibits an ${\cal N}=2$ extended…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-08 Alexander Frenkel , Petr Horava , Stephen Randall

In the Hamiltonian approach on a single spatial plaquette, we construct a quantum (lattice) gauge theory which incorporates the classical singularities. The reduced phase space is a stratified K\"ahler space, and we make explicit the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-30 J. Huebschmann , G. Rudolph , M. Schmidt

Let X be a complex manifold fibered over the base S and let L be a relatively ample line bundle over X. We define relative Kahler-Ricci flows on the space of all Hermitian metrics on L with relatively positive curvature. Mainly three…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-02 Robert J. Berman

We present in this paper a general approach to study the Ricci flow on homogeneous manifolds. Our main tool is a dynamical system defined on a subset H(q,n) of the variety of (q+n)-dimensional Lie algebras, parameterizing the space of all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-05 Jorge Lauret

In Riemannian geometry, the Ricci flow is the analogue of heat diffusion; a deformation of the metric tensor driven by its Ricci curvature. As a step towards resolving the problem of time in quantum gravity, we attempt to merge the Ricci…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-05 Mohammed Alzain

An abstract Newton-like equation on a general Lie algebra is introduced such that orbits of the Lie-group action are attracting set. This equation generates the nonlinear dynamical system satisfied by the group parameters having an…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Kowalski , J. Rembielinski

The Clifford group is a fundamental structure in quantum information with a wide variety of applications. We discuss the tensor representations of the $q$-qubit Clifford group, which is defined as the normalizer of the $q$-qubit Pauli group…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Jonas Helsen , Joel J. Wallman , Stephanie Wehner

We derive and analyze a relativistic quantum hydrodynamic (RQHD) system on the Heisenberg group. Starting from the Klein--Gordon--Poisson system, we apply the Madelung transformation to obtain a fluid-type model in which the relativistic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Ben Duan , Yutian Li , Rongrong Yan , Ran Zhang