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The second author and H. Yin have developed a Ricci flow existence theory that gives a complete Ricci flow starting with a surface equipped with a conformal structure and a nonatomic Radon measure as a volume measure. This led to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Luke T. Peachey , Peter M. Topping

In this work, we obtain some existence results of Chern-Ricci Flows and the corresponding Potential Flows on complex manifolds with possibly incomplete initial data. We discuss the behaviour of the solution as $t\rightarrow 0$. These…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Shaochuang Huang , Man-Chun Lee , Luen-Fai Tam

Regarding Ricci flow as a dynamical system, we derive sufficient conditions for noncompact stationary (Ricci-flat) solutions to possess infinite-dimensional unstable manifolds, and provide examples satisfying those criteria that have…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Sigurd B. Angenent , Dan Knopf

Let (M,g_0) be a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension n \geq 4. We show that the normalized Ricci flow deforms g_0 to a constant curvature metric provided that (M,g_0) x R has positive isotropic curvature. This condition is stronger…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-30 S. Brendle

We establish a 1-to-1 relation between metrics on compact Riemann surfaces without boundary, and mechanical systems having those surfaces as configuration spaces.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-10 S. Abraham , P. Fernandez de Cordoba , J. M. Isidro , J. L. G. Santander

In this paper we introduce a new geometric flow with rotational invariance and prove that, under this kind of flow, an arbitrary smooth closed contractible hypersurface in the Euclidean space Rn+1 (n, 1) converges to Sn in the C1-topology…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-06 De-Xing Kong , Qiang Ru

The main result of this paper shows that, if $g(t)$ is a complete non-singular solution of the normalized Ricci flow on a noncompact 4-manifold $M$ of finite volume, then the Euler characteristic number $\chi(M)\geq0$. Moreover,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Fuquan Fang , Yuguang Zhang , Zhenlei Zhang

I survey some of the developments in the theory of Ricci flow and its applications from the past decade. I focus mainly on the understanding of Ricci flows that are permitted to have unbounded curvature in the sense that the curvature can…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-07 Peter M. Topping

Let ${\bf M}$ be a compact Riemannian manifold and the metrics $g=g(t)$ evolve by the Ricci flow. We prove the following result. The Sobolev imbedding by Aubin or Hebey, perturbed by a scalar curvature term and modulo sharpness of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-08-29 Qi S. Zhang

Let $(M^n, g, f)$, $n\geq 5$, be a complete gradient expanding Ricci soliton with nonnegative Ricci curvature $Rc\geq 0$. In this paper, we show that if the asymptotic scalar curvature ratio of $(M^n, g, f)$ is finite (i.e., $ \limsup_{r\to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Huai-Dong Cao , Tianbo Liu , Junming Xie

We prove a so called $\kappa$ non-inflating property for Ricci flow, which provides an upper bound for volume ratio of geodesic balls over Euclidean ones, under an upper bound for scalar curvature. This result can be regarded as the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-11 Qi S. Zhang

We study the subsequential convergence of singular solutions to the Ricci flow with prescribed constant in space geodesic curvature on compact surfaces with boundary. Furthermore, we show that in the particular case of rotational symmetry,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Jean C. Cortissoz , Juan J. Villamarín

Understanding the relationships between geometry and topology is a central theme in Riemannian geometry. We establish two results on the fundamental groups of open (complete and noncompact) $n$-manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Dimitri Navarro , Jiayin Pan , Xingyu Zhu

Ge-Jiang (Geom Funct Anal 27:1231-1256, 2017) proved global $\varepsilon$-regularity for 4-dimensional Ricci flow with bounded scalar curvature. In this note, we extend this result to 4-dimensional Ricci flow with integral bound on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Wangjian Jian

We prove existence of isoperimetric regions for every volume in non-compact Riemannian $n$-manifolds $(M,g)$, $n\geq 2$, having Ricci curvature $Ric_g\geq (n-1) k_0 g$ and being locally asymptotic to the simply connected space form of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Andrea Mondino , Stefano Nardulli

In this paper, we give the full proof of a conjecture of R.Hamilton that for $(M^3, g)$ being a complete Riemannian 3-manifold with bounded curvature and with the Ricci pinching condition $Rc\geq \ep R g$, where $R>0$ is the positive scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-06 Li Ma

Let (M,g_0) be a compact Riemannian manifold with pointwise 1/4-pinched sectional curvatures. We show that the Ricci flow deforms g_0 to a constant curvature metric. The proof uses the fact, also established in this paper, that positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-07-18 S. Brendle , R. M. Schoen

Under suitable conditions near infinity and assuming boundedness of curvature tensor, we prove a no breathers theorem in the spirit of Ivey-Perelman for some noncompact Ricci flows. These include Ricci flows on asymptotically flat (AF)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-19 Qi S. Zhang

In this paper we analyze the long-time behaviour of 3 dimensional Ricci flow with surgery. We prove that under the topological condition that the initial manifold only has non-aspherical or hyperbolic components in its geometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-22 Richard H. Bamler

In this paper we will give a simple proof of a modification of a result on pseudolocality for the Ricci flow by P.Lu without using the pseudolocality theorem 10.1 of Perelman [P1]. We also obtain an extension of a result of Hamilton on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-10-07 Shu-Yu Hsu