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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

We obtain certain inequalities involving several intrinsic invariants namely scalar curvature, Ricci curvature and $k$-Ricci curvature, and main extrinsic invariant namely squared mean curvature for submanifolds in a locally conformal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mukut Mani Tripathi , Jeong-Sik Kim , Jaedong Choi

We prove a canonical variation-type result for submersion metrics with positive intermediate Ricci curvatures. This can then be used in conjunction with surgery techniques to establish the existence of metrics with positive intermediate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Philipp Reiser , David J. Wraith

We prove a weighted Sobolev inequality and a Hardy inequality on manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature satisfying an inverse doubling volume condition. It enables us to obtain rigidity results for Ricci flat manifolds, generalizing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vincent Minerbe

In this paper, we study 4-dimensional complete non-compact manifold with its curvature operator in $\mathfrak{C}_{\eta,\mu}$ via Ricci flow. We obtain topological and geometric gap theorems assuming such manifold has maximal volume growth.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Hongting Ding , Shaochuang Huang , Zhuo Peng

We prove a curvature pinching result for the Ricci flow on asymptotically flat manifolds: if an asymptotically flat manifold of dimension $n\geq 3$ has scale-invariant integral norm of curvature sufficiently pinched relative to the inverse…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-01 Eric Chen

We explore the notion of m-intermediate Ricci curvature assumption introduced by Brendle-Hirsch-Johne further. If a manifold has non-negative m-intermediate Ricci curvature and stable weighted slicing of order m-1, then the last slice has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Yujie Wu

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

Using a size condition of the sharp log Sobolev functional (log entropy) near infinity only, we prove a rigidity result for ancient Ricci flows without sign condition on the curvatures. The result is also related to the problem of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Qi S. Zhang

We proved that on every Stiefel manifold $V_2\mathbb{R}^n\cong \operatorname{SO}(n)/\operatorname{SO}(n-2)$ with $n\ge 3$ the normalized Ricci flow preserves the positivity of the Ricci curvature of invariant Riemannian metrics with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Nurlan Abiev

We consider a subset $S$ of the complex Lie algebra $\so(n,\C)$ and the cone $C(S)$ of curvature operators which are nonnegative on $S$. We show that $C(S)$ defines a Ricci flow invariant curvature condition if $S$ is invariant under…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-11 Burkhard Wilking

In this paper we survey some results on Ricci flowing non-smooth initial data. Among other things, we give a non-exhaustive list of various weak initial data which can be evolved with the Ricci flow. We also survey results which show that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Miles Simon

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

For each $n\ge 3$, we construct a 'pancake-like', $O(2)\times O(n-1)$-invariant ancient Ricci flow with positive curvature operator and bounded "girth", and we determine its asymptotic limits backwards in time. This solution is new even in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Theodora Bourni , Timothy Buttsworth , Ramiro Lafuente , Mat Langford

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 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

In this paper we consider the Ricci curvature of a Ricci soliton. In particular, we have showed that a complete gradient Ricci soliton with non-negative Ricci curvature possessing a non-constant convex potential function having finite…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Chandan Kumar Mondal , Absos Ali Shaikh

We prove that nonnegative $3$-intermediate Ricci curvature combined with uniformly positive $k$-triRic curvature implies rigidity of complete noncompact two-sided stable minimal hypersurfaces in a Riemannian manifold $(X^5,g)$ with bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Han Hong , Zetian Yan

This paper investigates the question of stability for a class of Ricci flows which start at possibly non-smooth metric spaces. We show that if the initial metric space is Reifenberg and locally bi-Lipschitz to Euclidean space, then two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Alix Deruelle , Felix Schulze , Miles Simon

In this short note, we show that the negative curvature is preserved in the deformation of hyperbolic warped product metrics under Ricci flow. It is also showed that the flow converges to a flat metric as time going to infinity.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-12 Li Ma , Xingwang Xu