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We present a manifold-based machine learning encoder-decoder method for learning dynamics in time, notably partial differential equations (PDEs), in which the manifold latent space evolves according to Ricci flow. This can be accomplished…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Andrew Gracyk

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 formulate and solve the existence problem for Ricci flow on a Riemann surface with initial data given by a Radon measure as volume measure. The theory leads us to a large class of new examples of nongradient expanding Ricci solitons,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Peter M. Topping , Hao Yin

In this paper we study the evolution of almost non-negatively curved (possibly singular) three dimensional metric spaces by Ricci flow. The non-negatively curved metric spaces which we consider arise as limits of smooth Riemannian manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Miles Simon

We prove the existence of Ricci flow starting from a class of metrics with unbounded curvature, which are doubly-warped products over an interval with a spherical factor pinched off at an end. These provide a forward evolution from some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-25 Timothy Carson

In this paper, we announce the following results: Let M be a Kaehler-Einstein manifold with positive scalar curvature. If the initial metric has nonnegative bisectional curvature and positive at least at one point, then the K\"ahler-Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Xiuxiong Chen , Gang Tian

In this work, we first establish short time existence and Shi's type estimate of second Ricci flow on complete noncompact Hermitian manifolds. As an application, we use the second Ricci flow to discuss the existence of Kaehler-Einstein…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Man-Chun Lee

We present a synthetic notion of scalar curvature (and its integral) for Riemannian manifolds and metric measure spaces, defined in terms of the initial slope of a Gaussian (double) integral. We explicitly calculate the integral scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Marco Flaim , Erik Hupp , Karl-Theodor Sturm

The 2D Ricci flow equation in the conformal gauge is studied using the linearization approach. Using a non-linear substitution of logarithmic type, the emergent quadratic equation is split in various ways. New special solutions involving…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-26 Stefan Adrian Carstea , Mihai Visinescu

In this paper we study the Ricci flow on compact four-manifolds with positive isotropic curvature and with no essential incompressible space form. Our purpose is two-fold. One is to give a complete proof of Hamilton's classification theorem…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bing-Long Chen , Xi-Ping Zhu

We introduce a new curvature flow which matches with the Ricci flow on metrics and preserves the almost Hermitian condition. This enables us to use Ricci flow to study almost Hermitian manifolds.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Casey Lynn Kelleher , Gang Tian

We introduce singular Ricci flows, which are Ricci flow spacetimes subject to certain asymptotic conditions. We consider the behavior of Ricci flow with surgery starting from a fixed initial compact Riemannian 3-manifold, as the surgery…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Bruce Kleiner , John Lott

I discuss certain applications of the Ricci flow in physics. I first review how it arises in the renormalization group (RG) flow of a nonlinear sigma model. I then review the concept of a Ricci soliton and recall how a soliton was used to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Woolgar

We establish the short-time existence of the Ricci flow on surfaces with a finite number of conic points, all with cone angle between 0 and $2\pi$, where the cone angles remain fixed or change in some smooth prescribed way. For the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Rafe Mazzeo , Yanir A. Rubinstein , Natasa Sesum

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 give a global picture of the Ricci flow on the space of three-dimensional, unimodular, nonabelian metric Lie algebras considered up to isometry and scaling. The Ricci flow is viewed as a two-dimensional dynamical system for the evolution…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-22 David Glickenstein , Tracy L. Payne

We obtain the evolution equations for the Riemann tensor, the Ricci tensor and the scalar curvature induced by the mean curvature flow. The evolution for the scalar curvature is similar to the Ricci flow, however, negative, rather than…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-03-12 Victor Tapia

We use the Ricci flow with surgery to study four-dimensional SU(2) x U(1)-symmetric metrics on a manifold with fixed boundary given by a squashed 3-sphere. Depending on the initial metric we show that the flow converges to either the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-06-13 G. Holzegel , T. Schmelzer , C. Warnick

We establish effective existence and uniqueness for the heat flow on time-dependent Riemannian manifolds, under minimal assumptions tailored towards the study of Ricci flow through singularities. The main point is that our estimates only…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Beomjun Choi , Jianhui Gao , Robert Haslhofer , Daniel Sigal

We analyse Ricci flow (normalised/un-normalised) of product manifolds --unwarped as well as warped, through a study of generic examples. First, we investigate such flows for the unwarped scenario with manifolds of the type $\mathbb…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-09 Sanjit Das , Kartik Prabhu , Sayan Kar