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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

We study the short-time existence and regularity of solutions to a boundary value problem for the Ricci-DeTurck equation on a manifold with boundary. Using this, we prove the short-time existence and uniqueness of the Ricci flow prescribing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-14 Panagiotis Gianniotis

We introduce certain spherically symmetric singular Ricci solitons and study their stability under the Ricci flow from a dynamical PDE point of view. The solitons in question exist for all dimensions $n+1\ge 3$, and all have a point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-25 Spyros Alexakis , Dezhong Chen , Grigorios Fournodavlos

We study the Ricci flow on $\mathbb{R}^{4}$ starting at an SU(2)-cohomogeneity 1 metric $g_{0}$ whose restriction to any hypersphere is a Berger metric. We prove that if $g_{0}$ has no necks and is bounded by a cylinder, then the solution…

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

We present two new conditions to extend the Ricci flow on a compact manifold over a finite time, which are improvements of some known extension theorems.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-07-17 Fei He

In earlier work, we derived formal matched asymptotic profiles for families of Ricci flow solutions developing Type-II degenerate neckpinches. In the present work, we prove that there do exist Ricci flow solutions that develop singularities…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Sigurd B. Angenent , James Isenberg , Dan Knopf

Motivated by the long-time behavior of Ricci flows that collapse with bounded curvature, we study expanding Ricci solitons with nilpotent symmetry on vector bundles over a closed manifold. We prove that, under mild assumptions that are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Ramiro A. Lafuente , Adam Thompson

In this survey we provide an overview of our recent results concerning Ricci de Turck flow on spaces with isolated conical singularities. The crucial characteristic of the flow is that it preserves the conical singularity. Under certain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Klaus Kroencke , Boris Vertman

We present a monotonic expression for the Ricci flow, valid in all dimensions and without curvature assumptions. It is interpreted as an entropy for a certain canonical ensemble. Several geometric applications are given. In particular, (1)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Grisha Perelman

In this paper we prove two backward uniqueness theorems for extrinsic geometric flow of possibly non-compact hypersurfaces in general ambient complete Riemannian manifolds. These are applicable to a wide range of extrinsic geometric flow,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Dasong Li , John Man Shun Ma

We prove the short-time existence of Ricci flows on complete manifolds with scalar curvature bounded below uniformly, Ricci curvature bounded below by a negative quadratic function, and with almost Euclidean isoperimetric inequality holds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Fei He

We prove short time existence for the Ricci flow on open manifolds of nonnegative complex sectional curvature. We do not require upper curvature bounds. By considering the doubling of convex sets contained in a Cheeger-Gromoll convex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-24 Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Burkhard Wilking

We study the Ricci flow out of spaces with edge type conical singularities along a closed, embedded curve. Under the additional assumption that for each point of the curve, our space is locally modelled on the product of a fixed positively…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Lucas Lavoyer

In this paper we characterize non-collapsed limits of Ricci flows. We show that such limits are smooth away from a set of codimension $\geq 4$ in the parabolic sense and that the tangent flows at every point are given by gradient shrinking…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Richard H Bamler

In this paper, we extend the results of \cite{fang2025strong, fang2025singular} to generalized cylinders. More precisely, we establish a Lojasiewicz inequality for the pointed $\mathcal{W}$-entropy in Ricci flow under the assumption that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Hanbing Fang , Yu Li

The Ricci flow is a natural evolution equation for Riemannian metrics on a given manifold. The main goal is to understand singularity formation. In his spectacular 2002 breakthrough, Perelman achieved a qualitative understanding of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-04 S. Brendle

We prove that for any complete three-manifold with a lower Ricci curvature bound and a lower bound on the volume of balls of radius one, a solution to the Ricci flow exists for short time. Actually our proof also yields a (non-canonical)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-30 Raphael Hochard

We study the uniqueness problem for the K\"ahler-Ricci flow with a conical initial condition. Given a complete gradient expanding K\"ahler-Ricci soliton on a non compact manifold with quadratic curvature decay, including its derivatives, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Longteng Chen

We study the Ricci flow on Riemannian groupoids. We assume that these groupoids are closed and that the space of orbits is compact and connected. We prove the short time existence and uniqueness of the Ricci flow on these groupoids. We also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Christian Hilaire

Here we provide a uniqueness result for viscosity solutions to sub-Riemannian mean curvature flow. In this setting the uniqueness cannot be deduced via comparison principle, which is known only for graphs and for radially symmetric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Emre Baspinar , Giovanna Citti