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In this paper, we obtain the existence of Dirichlet problem for VT harmonic map from compact Riemannian manifold with or without boundary into compact manifold via the heat flow method. We also obtain the existence of V T geodesics uncer…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Xiangzhi Cao

We investigate special Killing vector fields on 3-dimensional Riemannian manifolds of biwarped product-type. Starting from a diagonal metric on $\mathbb R^3$ determined by two nontrivial warping functions and a constant scaling factor, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Adara M. Blaga

We investigate the K\"ahler-Ricci flow modified by a holomorphic vector field. We find equivalent analytic criteria for the convergence of the flow to a K\"ahler-Ricci soliton. In addition, we relate the asymptotic behavior of the scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-20 D. H. Phong , Jian Song , Jacob Sturm , Ben Weinkove

We consider Killing vector fields on standard static space-times and obtain equations for a vector field on a standard static space-time to be Killing. We also provide a characterization of Killing vector fields on standard static…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-31 Fernando Dobarro , Bulent Unal

We study the Hermitian curvature flow of locally homogeneous non-K\"ahler metrics on compact complex surfaces. In particular, we characterize the long-time behavior of the solutions to the flow. We also provide the first example of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Francesco Pediconi , Mattia Pujia

This article aims to classify closed vacuum static spaces with a non-Killing closed conformal vector field. We firstly provide several characterizations of the conditions under which the first derivative of the warping function fulfills the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Jian Ye

In this paper, using connections between Clifford-Wolf isometries and Killing vector fields of constant length on a given Riemannian manifold, we classify simply connected Clifford-Wolf homogeneous Riemannian manifolds. We also get the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-01 V. N. Berestovskii , Yu. G. Nikonorov

The defining equations for Killing vector fields and conformal Killing vector fields are overdetermined systems of PDE. This makes it difficult to solve the systems numerically. We propose an approach which reduces the computation to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Gaëlle Brunet , Maryam Samavaki , Jukka Tuomela

Let $X$ be a compact Hermitian surface, and $g$ be any fixed Gauduchon metric on $X$. Let $E$ be an Hermitian holomorphic vector bundle over $X$. On the bundle $E$, Donaldson's heat flow is gauge equivalent to a flow of holomorphic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-01 Jacob McNamara , Yifei Zhao

When the domain is a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Bakry--Emery Ricci curvature and the target is a complete Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature bounded above by a positive constant, by carrying out…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Qun Chen , Hongbing Qiu

In this paper, we define a class of new geometric flows on a complete Riemannian manifold. The new flow is related to the generalized (third order) Landau-Lifishitz equation. On the other hand it could be thought of a special case of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Xiaowei Sun , Youde Wang

Let $M$ be a K\"ahler-Einstein surface with positive scalar curvature. If the initial surface is sufficiently close to a holomorphic curve, we show that the mean curvature flow has a global solution and it converges to a holomorphic curve.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xiaoli Han , Jiayu Li

A rank $m$ symmetric tensor field on a Riemannian manifold is called a Killing field if the symmetric part of its covariant derivative is equal to zero. Such a field determines the first integral of the geodesic flow which is a degree $m$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Vladimir A. Sharafutdinov

We study the heat flow in the loop space of a closed Riemannian manifold $M$ as an adiabatic limit of the Floer equations in the cotangent bundle. Our main application is a proof that the Floer homology of the cotangent bundle, for the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-10 Dietmar A. Salamon , Joa Weber

In this paper, we study the existence of a complete holomorphic vector fields on a strongly pseudoconvex complex manifold admitting a negatively curved complete K\"ahler-Einstein metric and a discrete sequence of automorphisms. Using the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Young-Jun Choi , Kang-Hyurk Lee

We define and make an initial study of (even) Riemannian supermanifolds equipped with a homological vector field that is also a Killing vector field. We refer to such supermanifolds as Riemannian Q-manifolds. We show that such Q-manifolds…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Andrew James Bruce

The study of symmetries in the realm of manifolds can be approached in two different ways. On one hand, Killing vector fields on a (pseudo-)Riemannian manifold correspond to the directions of local isometries within it. On the other hand,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Thales B. S. F. Rodrigues , B. F. Rizzuti

Hano's theorem states that the space of Killing vector fields of a complete simply connected Riemannian manifold is isomorphic to the direct sum of the Killing vector fields of the factors in its de Rham decomposition. We prove a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Federico Costanza , Thomas Leistner

The fluid-gravity correspondence provides us with explicit spacetime metrics that are holographically dual to (non-)relativistic nonlinear hydrodynamics. The vacuum Einstein equations, in the presence of a Killing vector, possess…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Joel Berkeley , David S. Berman

Inspired by Wilkin's work [23, 24] on Morse theory for the moduli space of Higgs bundles, we study the moduli space of gauged holomorphic maps by a heat flow approach in the spirit of Atiyah and Bott in a series of papers. In this paper,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Aijin Lin , Liangming Shen