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We study the phenomenon of evolution by horizontal mean curvature flow in sub-Riemannian geometries. We use a stochastic approach to prove the existence of a generalized evolution in these spaces. In particular we show that the value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Nicolas Dirr , Federica Dragoni , Max von Renesse

We illustrate the flow or wave character of the metrics and curvatures of evolving manifolds, introducing the Riemann flow and the Riemann wave via the bialternate product Riemannian metric. This kind of evolutions are new and very natural…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-22 Constantin Udriste

On the manifold $\Met(M)$ of all Riemannian metrics on a compact manifold $M$ one can consider the natural $L^2$-metric as described first by \cite{Ebin70}. In this paper we consider variants of this metric which in general are of higher…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-21 Martin Bauer , Philipp Harms , Peter W. Michor

A class of elliptic-hyperbolic equations is placed in the context of a geometric variational theory, in which the change of type is viewed as a change in the character of an underlying metric. A fundamental example of a metric which changes…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Thomas H. Otway

The main objective of this article is to study the mean curvature flow into an ambient compact smooth manifold M with boundary and with a Riemannian metric that evolves by a self-similar solution of the Ricci flow coupled with the harmonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 José N. V. Gomes , Matheus Hudson , Carlos M. de Sousa

Neural networks with PDEs embedded in their loss functions (physics-informed neural networks) are employed as a function approximators to find solutions to the Ricci flow (a curvature based evolution) of Riemannian metrics. A general method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-13 Aarjav Jain , Challenger Mishra , Pietro Liò

The approach to nonholonomic Ricci flows and geometric evolution of regular Lagrange systems [S. Vacaru: J. Math. Phys. \textbf{49} (2008) 043504 \& Rep. Math. Phys. \textbf{63} (2009) 95] is extended to include geometric mechanics and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-25 Laurenţiu Bubuianu , Sergiu I. Vacaru

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

The paper proposes a variational-inequality based primal-dual dynamic that has a globally exponentially stable saddle-point solution when applied to solve linear inequality constrained optimization problems. A Riemannian geometric framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-07 P. Bansode , V. Chinde , S. R. Wagh , R. Pasumarthy , N. M. Singh

The aim of this paper is to study new classes of Riemannian manifolds endowed with a smooth potential function, including in a general framework classical canonical structures such as Einstein, harmonic curvature and Yamabe metrics, and,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Giovanni Catino , Paolo Mastrolia

Riemannian geometry provides the fundamental framework for optimization on nonlinear spaces such as matrix manifolds, which arise in machine learning, signal processing, and robotics. While the underlying theory is classical, existing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Benyamin Ghojogh

We consider the normalized Ricci flow evolving from an initial metric which is conformally compactifiable and asymptotically hyperbolic. We show that there is a unique evolving metric which remains in this class, and that the flow exists up…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-07 Eric Bahuaud , Eric Woolgar

We show how solutions to a large class of partial differential equations with nonlocal Riccati-type nonlinearities can be generated from the corresponding linearized equations, from arbitrary initial data. It is well known that evolutionary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-31 Margaret Beck , Anastasia Doikou , Simon J. A. Malham , Ioannis Stylianidis

In the present work we find the Lie point symmetries of the Ricci flow on an $n$-dimensional manifold. and we introduce a method in order to reutilize these symmetries to obtain the Lie point symmetries of particular metrics. We apply this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Enrique López , Stylianos Dimas , Yuri Bozhkov

The isometric embedding problem for Riemannian manifolds, which connects intrinsic and extrinsic geometry, is a central question in differential geometry with deep theoretical significance and wide-ranging applications. Despite extensive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Guangwei Gao , Kaibo Hu , Buyang Li , Ganghui Zhang

We study the curve shortening flow on Riemann surfaces with finitely many conformal conical singularities. If the initial curve is passing through the singular points, then the evolution is governed by a degenerate quasilinear parabolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Nikolaos Roidos , Andreas Savas-Halilaj

We study the Ricci-Bourguignon flow on warped product manifolds with noncompact base. This setting leads naturally to a parabolic partial differential equation on the space of smooth warping functions, arising from the necessary and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-17 José N. V. Gomes , Willian I. Tokura , Hikaru Yamamoto

The present paper is devoted to the study a global aspect of the geometry of harmonic mappings and, in particular, infinitesimal harmonic transformations, and represents the application of our results to the theory of Ricci solutions and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Sergey Stepanov , Irina Aleksandrova , Irina Tsyganok

In this article and in its sequel we propose the study of certain discretizations of geometric evolution equations as an approach to the study of the existence problem of some elliptic partial differential equations of a geometric nature as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-02 Yanir A. Rubinstein

The aim of this short note is to produce new examples of geometrical flows associated to a given Riemannian flow $g(t)$. The considered flow in covariant symmetric $2$-tensor fields will be called Ricci-Yamabe map since it involves a scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-29 Mircea Crasmareanu , Sinem Güler