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We show that the only complete shrinking gradient Ricci solitons with vanishing Weyl tensor are quotients of the standard ones. This gives a new proof of the Hamilton-Ivey-Perel'man classification of 3-dimensional shrinking gradient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Peter Petersen , William Wylie

Following work of Ecker, we consider a weighted Gibbons-Hawking-York functional on a Riemannian manifold-with-boundary. We compute its variational properties and its time derivative under Perelman's modified Ricci flow. The answer has a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-28 John Lott

In this paper we study the long time existence of the Ricci-harmonic flow in terms of scalar curvature and Weyl tensor which extends Cao's result \cite{Cao2011} in the Ricci flow. In dimension four, we also study the integral bound of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-30 Yi Li

In this article, we investigate a gradient almost Ricci soliton with harmonic Weyl tensor. We first prove that its Ricci tensor has at most three distinct eigenvalues of constant multiplicities in a neighborhood of a regular point of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Valter Borges , Matheus Andrade Ribeiro de Moura Horácio , João Paulo dos Santos

A Ricci soliton is a natural generalization of an Einstein metric. On a pseudo-Riemannian manifold (M, g), it is defined by : $LX g + \r{ho} = {\lambda} g, where X is a smooth vector field on M , LX denotes the Lie derivative in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-15 A. Diatta , M. Ciss , A. S. Diallo

In this paper we investigate a kind of generalized Ricci flow which possesses a gradient form. We study the monotonicity of the given function under the generalized Ricci flow and prove that the related system of partial differential…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-19 Chun-lei He , Sen Hu , De-Xing Kong , Kefeng Liu

In this paper, we consider functionals related to mean curvature flow in an ambient space which evolves by an extended Ricci flow from the perspective introduced by Lott when studying a mean curvature flow in a Ricci flow background. One of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-12 José N. V. Gomes , Matheus Hudson

This paper explores the behavior of the torsional rigidity of a precompact domain as the ambient manifold evolves under a geometric flow. Specifically, we derive bounds on torsional rigidity under the Ricci Flow for Heisenberg spaces and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Vicent Gimeno i Garcia , Fernán González-Ibáñez

In this paper, we study conformal submersions from Ricci solitons to Riemannian manifolds with non-trivial examples. First, we study some properties of the O'Neill tensor $A$ in the case of conformal submersion. We also find a necessary and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Kiran Meena , Akhilesh Yadav

We derive, under a technical assumption, the first variation formula for the eigenvalues of the Laplacian on a closed manifold evolving by the Ricci flow and give some applications.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Luca Fabrizio Di Cerbo

Using a recently developed piecewise flat method, numerical evolutions of the Ricci flow are computed for a number of manifolds, using a number of different mesh types, and shown to converge to the expected smooth behaviour as the mesh…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-26 Rory Conboye

In this paper we present several curvature estimates for solutions of the Ricci flow which depend on smallness of certain local integrals of the norm of the Riemann curvature tensor.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-07-17 Rugang Ye

We investigate the triviality of compact Ricci solitons under general scalar conditions involving the Weyl tensor. More precisely, we show that a compact Ricci soliton is Einstein if a generic linear combination of divergences of the Weyl…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Giovanni Catino , Paolo Mastrolia

We derive the evolution equations for the electric and magnetic parts of the Weyl tensor for cold dust from both general relativity and Newtonian gravity. In a locally inertial frame at rest in the fluid frame, the Newtonian equations agree…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Edmund Bertschinger , A. J. S. Hamilton

We use the theory of isoparametric functions to investigate gradient Ricci solitons with constant scalar curvature. We show rigidity of gradient Ricci solitons with constant scalar curvature under some conditions on the Ricci tensor, which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-12 Manuel Fernandez-Lopez , Eduardo Garcia-Rio

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 prove pinching estimates for solutions of the linearized Ricci flow system on a closed manifold of dimension $n\geq 4$ with positive scalar curvature and vanishing Weyl tensor. If the vanishing Weyl tensor condition is removed, we only…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-19 Jia-Yong Wu , Jian-Biao Chen

We use a first-order energy quantity to prove a strengthened statement of uniqueness for the Ricci flow. One consequence of this statement is that if a complete solution on a noncompact manifold has uniformly bounded Ricci curvature, then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-30 Brett Kotschwar

We study the soliton flow on the domain of a twistorial harmonic morphism between Riemannian manifolds of dimensions four and three. Assuming real-analyticity, we prove that, for the Gibbons-Hawking construction, any soliton flow is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-18 Paul Baird , Radu Pantilie

We construct the classical mechanics associated with a conformally flat Riemannian metric on a compact, n-dimensional manifold without boundary. The corresponding gradient Ricci flow equation turns out to equal the time-dependent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-16 S. Abraham , P. Fernandez de Cordoba , J. M. Isidro , J. L. G. Santander