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In this paper, we investigate the problem of prescribing Chern scalar curvatures on compact Hermitian manifolds with negative Gauduchon degree. By studying the convergence of the associated geometric flow, we obtain some existence results…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-19 Weike Yu

Killing vector fields in three dimensions play important role in the construction of the related spacetime geometry. In this work we show that when a three dimensional geometry admits a Killing vector field then the Ricci tensor of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Metin Gurses

A soliton of the mean curvature flow in the product space $\mathbb{s}^2\times\mathbb{R}$ as a surface whose mean curvature $H$ satisfies the equation $H=\langle N,X\rangle$, where $N$ is the unit normal of the surface and $X$ is a Killing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Rafael López , Marian Ioan Munteanu

We introduce a new technique to visualize complex flowing phenomena by using concepts from shape analysis. Our approach uses techniques that examine the intrinsic geometry of manifolds through their heat kernel, to obtain representations of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Kairong Jiang , Matthew Berger , Joshua A. Levine

Let $(M,g)$ be a compact K\"ahler manifold and $f$ a positive smooth function such that its Hamiltonian vector field $K = J\mathrm{grad}_g f$ for the K\"ahler form $\omega_g$ is a holomorphic Killing vector field. We say that the pair…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Akito Futaki , Hajime Ono

Let (M,g) be a compact oriented Riemannian manifold with an incomplete edge singularity. This article shows that it is possible to evolve g by the Yamabe flow within a class of singular edge metrics. As the main analytic step we establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-02 Eric Bahuaud , Boris Vertman

A new curvature obstruction to the existence of a timelike (resp. causal) Killing or homothetic vector field $X$ on an even-dimensional (odd-dimensional) Lorentzian manifold, in terms of its timelike (resp. null) sectional curvature is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Alfonso Romero , Miguel Sánchez

In covariant metric theories of coupled gravity-matter systems the necessary and sufficient conditions ensuring the existence of a Killing vector field are investigated. It is shown that the symmetries of initial data sets are preserved by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Istvan Racz

In this work we find the Killing vector fields of the riemannian submanifolds of the thermodynamic phase space of an ideal gas and show that the isometry group corresponding to them is homomorphic to the euclidean group $E(2)$. We also give…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 M. Montesinos-Velasquez

We formulate hydrodynamic equations and spectrally accurate numerical methods for investigating the role of geometry in flows within two-dimensional fluid interfaces. To achieve numerical approximations having high precision and level of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-28 Ben J. Gross , Paul J. Atzberger

We introduce the conical K\"ahler-Ricci flow modified by a holomorphic vector field. We construct a long-time solution of the modified conical K\"ahler-Ricci flow as the limit of a sequence of smooth K\"ahler-Ricci flows.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Ryosuke Takahashi

We study the analog of the Yang-Mills heat flow on the moduli space of framed bundles on a cut surface. Existence and convergence of the heat flow give a stratification of Morse type invariant under the action of the loop group. We use the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Christopher T. Woodward

We study invariant solutions to the Positive Hermitian Curvature Flow, introduced by Ustinovskiy, on complex Lie groups. We show in particular that the canonical scale-static metrics on the special linear groups, arising from the Killing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-20 James Stanfield

We show that some modern geometric methods of Hamiltonian dynamics can be directly applied to the nonholonomic Heisenberg type systems. As an example we present characteristic Killing tensors, compatible Poisson brackets, Lax matrices and…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2016-11-28 Yury A. Grigoryev , Alexey P. Sozonov , Andrey V. Tsiganov

Using the interpretation of the half-Laplacian on $S^1$ as the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator for the Laplace equation on the ball $B$, we devise a classical approach to the heat flow for half-harmonic maps from $S^1$ to a closed target…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Michael Struwe

We discuss various properties of rotating Killing horizons in generic $F(R)$ theories of gravity in dimension four for spacetimes endowed with two commuting Killing vector fields. Assuming there is no curvature singularity anywhere on or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-06 Sourav Bhattacharya

The mathematical formulation, basic concept and numerical implementation of a new meshless method for solving three dimensional fluid flow and related heat transfer problems are presented in this paper. Moving least squares approximation is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-09-10 Cheng-An Wang , Hamou Sadat , Christian Prax

Bamler-Zhang have developed geometric analysis on Ricci flow with scalar curvature bound. The aim of this paper is to extend their work to various geometric flows. We generalize some of their results to super Ricci flow whose Muller…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Keita Kunikawa , Yohei Sakurai

In this article, we continue the program started in our previous article of exploring an important class of thermodynamic systems from a geometric point of view. In order to model the time evolution of systems verifying the two laws of…

We study phase portraits and singular points of vector fields of a special type, that is, vector fields whose components are fractions with a common denominator vanishing on a smooth regular hypersurface in the phase space. We assume also…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-07-26 Roberta Ghezzi , Alexey Remizov