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In this paper we define the torsion flow, a CR analogue of the Ricci flow. For homogeneous CR manifolds we give explicit solutions to the torsion flow illustrating various kinds of behavior. We also derive monotonicity formulas for CR…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-23 Shu-Cheng Chang , Otto van Koert , Chin-Tung Wu

Perelman has discovered two integral quantities, the shrinker entropy $\cW$ and the (backward) reduced volume, that are monotone under the Ricci flow $\pa g_{ij}/\pa t=-2R_{ij}$ and constant on shrinking solitons. Tweaking some signs, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Feldman , Tom Ilmanen , Lei Ni

We consider the 1-harmonic flow of maps from a bounded domain into a submanifold of a Euclidean space, i.e. the gradient flow of the total variation functional restricted to maps taking values in the manifold. We restrict ourselves to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Lorenzo Giacomelli , Michał Łasica , Salvador Moll

The main purpose of this note is to construct two functionals of the positive solutions to the conjugate heat equation associated to the metrics evolving by the conformal Ricci flow on closed manifolds. We show that they are nondecreasing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Fengjiang Li , Peng Lu , Jianhong Wang , Yu Zheng

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

The Ricci flow is a heat equation for metrics, which has recently been used to study the topology of closed three manifolds. In this paper we apply Ricci flow techniques to general relativity. We view a three dimensional asymptotically flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Joseph Samuel , Sutirtha Roy Chowdhury

We prove dynamical stability and instability theorems for compact Einstein metrics under the Ricci flow. We give a nearly complete charactarization of dynamical stability and instability in terms of the conformal Yamabe invariant and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Klaus Kroencke

We introduce a novel curvature flow, the Heterotic-Ricci flow, as the two-loop renormalization group flow of the Heterotic string common sector and study its three-dimensional compact solitons. The Heterotic-Ricci flow is a coupled…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Andrei Moroianu , Ángel J. Murcia , C. S. Shahbazi

In this short notes, we discuss monotonicity formulas under various rescaled versions of Ricci flow. The main result is Theorem \ref{theo rescaled}.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-11-10 Jun-Fang Li

We consider the Ricci flow for simply connected nilmanifolds, which translates to a Ricci flow on the space of nilpotent metric Lie algebras. We consider the evolution of the inner product and the evolution of structure constants, as well…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-12 Tracy L. Payne

In this work we generalise various recent results on the evolution and monotonicity of the eigenvalues of certain geometric operators under specified geometric flows. Given a closed, compact Riemannian manifold $\big(M^n,g(t)\big)$ and a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-21 R. R. Mesquita , D. M. Tsonev

We consider some elementary aspects of the geometry of the space of probability measures endowed with Wasserstein distance. In such a setting, we discuss the various terms entering Perelman's shrinker entropy, and characterize two new…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-24 Mauro Carfora

We develop a compactness theory for super Ricci flows, which lays the foundations for the partial regularity theory in [Bam20b]. Our results imply that any sequence of super Ricci flows of the same dimension that is pointed in an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Richard H Bamler

This paper defines a parabolic frequency for solutions of the heat equation on a Ricci flow and proves it's monotonicity along the flow. Frequency monotonicity is known to have many useful consequences; here it is shown to provide a simple…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-01 Julius Baldauf , Dain Kim

We study the evolution of wormhole geometries under Ricci flow using numerical methods. Depending on values of initial data parameters, wormhole throats either pinch off or evolve to a monotonically growing state. The transition between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Viqar Husain , Sanjeev S. Seahra

In this paper we prove that given a smoothly conformally compact metric there is a short-time solution to the Ricci flow that remains smoothly conformally compact. We adapt recent results of Schn\"urer, Schulze and Simon to prove a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Eric Bahuaud

We show some computations related to the motion by mean curvature flow of a submanifold inside an ambient Riemannian manifold evolving by Ricci or backward Ricci flow. Special emphasis is given to the possible generalization of Huisken's…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-29 Annibale Magni , Carlo Mantegazza , Efstratios Tsatis

The Ricci flow was introduced by Hamilton and gained its importance through the years. Of special importance is the limiting behavior of the flow and its symmetry properties. Taking this into account, we present a novel normalization for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Lino Grama , Ricardo M. Martins , Mauro Patrão , Lucas Seco , Llohann D. Sperança

We prove the convergence of K\"ahler-Ricci flow with some small initial curvature conditions. As applications, we discuss the convergence of K\"ahler-Ricci flow when the complex structure varies on a K\"ahler-Einstein manifold.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-30 Xiuxiong Chen , Haozhao Li

In this paper we focus on the uniqueness question for (expanding) solutions of the Harmonic map flow coming out of smooth 0-homogeneous maps with values into a closed Riemannian manifold. We introduce a relative entropy for two purposes. On…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Alix Deruelle