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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

We give the global picture of the normalized Ricci flow on generalized flag manifolds with two or three isotropy summands. The normalized Ricci flow for these spaces descents to a parameter depending system of two or three ordinary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-25 Stavros Anastassiou , Ioannis Chrysikos

We show that an orientable 3-dimensional manifold M admits a complete riemannian metric of bounded geometry and uniformly pos- itive scalar curvature if and only if there exists a finite collection F of spherical space-forms such that M is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Laurent Bessières , Gérard Besson , Sylvain Maillot

In this paper we study a boundary value problem for the Ricci flow in the two dimensional ball endowed with a rotationally symmetric metric. We show short and long time existence results. We construct families of metrics for which the flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean Cortissoz

We construct a class of monotonic quantities along the normalized Ricci flow on closed n-dimensional manifolds.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-24 Jun Ling

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

In this paper we prove convergence and compactness results for Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature and entropy. More specifically, we show that Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature converge smoothly away from a singular set of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-08 Richard H. Bamler

In this paper we prove a compactness result for Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature and entropy. It states that given any sequence of such Ricci flows, we can pass to a subsequence that converges to a metric space which is smooth away…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-16 Richard H. Bamler

A fundamental tool in the analysis of Ricci flow is a compactness result of Hamilton in the spirit of the work of Cheeger, Gromov and others. Roughly speaking it allows one to take a sequence of Ricci flows with uniformly bounded curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-18 Peter Topping

We prove a precompactness theorem for invariant metrics on compact homogeneous spaces without injectivity radius bounds, assuming uniform bounds on the diameter and on all derivatives of the curvature tensor. As a consequence, we prove that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Anusha M. Krishnan , Francesco Pediconi

There are described equations for a pair comprising a Riemannian metric and a Killing field on a surface that contain as special cases the Einstein Weyl equations (in the sense of D. Calderbank) and a real version of a special case of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Daniel J. F. Fox

We survey several problems concerning Riemannian manifolds with positive curvature of one form or another. We describe the PIC1 notion of positive curvature and argue that it is often the sharp notion of positive curvature to consider.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Peter M. Topping

To every Ricci flow on a manifold M over a time interval I, we associate a shrinking Ricci soliton on the space-time M x I. We relate properties of the original Ricci flow to properties of the new higher-dimensional Ricci flow equipped with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-26 Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Peter M. Topping

In this paper, we study the Ricci flow on closed manifolds equipped with warped product metric $(N\times F,g_{N}+f^2 g_{F})$ with $(F,g_{F})$ Ricci flat. Using the framework of monotone formulas, we derive several estimates for the adapted…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Hung Tran

In this note we attempt to propose a categorical framework for the Ricci flow, treating it as a sequence of functors connecting the stack of Riemannian metrics to the category of geometric decompositions via singular flow spacetimes. To…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Alexander Plakhotnikov

We prove that, for a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold, the Ricci flow is obtained by a Wiener process.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-01-30 Marco Frasca

We study an analogue of the Calabi flow in the non-K\"ahler setting for compact Hermitian manifolds with vanishing first Bott-Chern class. We prove a priori estimates for the evolving metric along the flow given a uniform bound on the Chern…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Xi Sisi Shen

In this paper, we investigate the behavior of the normalized Ricci flow on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. We show that the normalized Ricci flow exists globally and converges to an Einstein metric when starting from a non-degenerate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-03 Jie Qing , Yuguang Shi , Jie Wu

The Ricci iteration is a discrete analogue of the Ricci flow. According to Perelman, the Ricci flow converges to a Kahler-Einstein metric whenever one exists, and it has been conjectured that the Ricci iteration should behave similarly.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Tamás Darvas , Yanir A. Rubinstein

We review the main aspects of Ricci flows as they arise in physics and mathematics. In field theory they describe the renormalization group equations of the target space metric of two dimensional sigma models to lowest order in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Ioannis Bakas