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We show that there exists a quantity, depending only on $C^0$ data of a Riemannian metric, that agrees with the usual ADM mass at infinity whenever the ADM mass exists, but has a well-defined limit at infinity for any continuous Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Paula Burkhardt-Guim

Motivated by the recent work of Lamm and Simon, in this work we study the short-time existence theory of Ricci-Deturck flow starting from rough metrics which are bi-Lipschitz and have small local scaling invariant gradient concentration. As…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-18 Jianchun Chu , Man-Chun Lee

In this paper we study the behavior of the Ricci flow at infinity for the full flag manifold $SU(3)/T$ using techniques of the qualitative theory of differential equations, in special the Poincar\'e Compactification and Lyapunov exponents.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-31 Ricardo Miranda Martins , Lino Grama

We review the main aspects of Ricci flows as they arise in physics and mathematics. In field theory they describe the renormalization group equations of the target space metric of two dimensional sigma models to lowest order in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Ioannis Bakas

We prove that for any complete three-manifold with a lower Ricci curvature bound and a lower bound on the volume of balls of radius one, a solution to the Ricci flow exists for short time. Actually our proof also yields a (non-canonical)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-30 Raphael Hochard

We present in this paper a general approach to study the Ricci flow on homogeneous manifolds. Our main tool is a dynamical system defined on a subset H(q,n) of the variety of (q+n)-dimensional Lie algebras, parameterizing the space of all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-05 Jorge Lauret

The paper provides a different proof of the result of Brendle-Schoen on the differential sphere theorem. It is shown directly that the invariant cone of curvature operators with positive (or non-negative) complex sectional curvature is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-05 Lei Ni , Jon Wolfson

In this paper we consider a Ricci de Turck flow of spaces with isolated conical singularities, which preserves the conical structure along the flow. We establish that a given initial regularity of Ricci curvature is preserved along the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Klaus Kroencke , Tobias Marxen , Boris Vertman

We derive estimates relating the values of a solution at any two points to the distance between the points, for quasilinear parabolic equations on compact Riemannian manifolds under the Ricci flow.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Min Chen

We show that any locally conformally flat ancient solution to the Ricci flow must be rotationally symmetric. As a by-product, we prove that any locally conformally flat Ricci soliton is a gradient soliton in the shrinking and steady cases…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Giovanni Catino , Carlo Mantegazza , Lorenzo Mazzieri

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

This paper defines a parabolic frequency for solutions of the heat equation on a Ricci flow and proves it's monotonicity along the flow. Frequency monotonicity is known to have many useful consequences; here it is shown to provide a simple…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-01 Julius Baldauf , Dain Kim

We show some computations related to the motion by mean curvature flow of a submanifold inside an ambient Riemannian manifold evolving by Ricci or backward Ricci flow. Special emphasis is given to the possible generalization of Huisken's…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-29 Annibale Magni , Carlo Mantegazza , Efstratios Tsatis

In this paper, we study the asymptotic geometry of a noncollapsed ancient Ricci flow with nonnegative Ricci curvature via its tangent flow at infinity -- a noncollapsed $\mathbb{F}$-limit metric soliton [Bam23,CMZ23]. We first prove some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Yuxing Deng , Ganqi Wang , Yongjia Zhang

B List has recently studied a geometric flow whose fixed points correspond to static Ricci flat spacetimes. It is now known that this flow is in fact Ricci flow modulo pullback by a certain diffeomorphism. We use this observation to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-20 M M Akbar , E Woolgar

The geometric flow theory and its applications turned into one of the most intensively developing branches of modern geometry. Here, a brief introduction to Finslerian Ricci flow and their self-similar solutions known as Ricci solitons are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Behroz Bidabad , Mohammad Yar Ahmadi

In his study of Ricci flow, Perelman introduced a smooth-manifold invariant called lambda-bar. We show here that, for completely elementary reasons, this invariant simply equals the Yamabe invariant, alias the sigma constant, whenever the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kazuo Akutagawa , Masashi Ishida , Claude LeBrun

In this short note, we observe that the Bamler-Kleiner proof of uniqueness and stability for 3-dimensional Ricci flow through singularities generalizes to singular Ricci flows in higher dimensions that satisfy an analogous canonical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-14 Robert Haslhofer

In this paper, we set up a new Yamabe type flow on a compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ of dimension $n\geq 3$. Let $\psi(x)$ be any smooth function on $M$. Let $p=\frac{n+2}{n-2}$ and $c_n=\frac{4(n-1)}{n-2}$. We study the Yamabe-type…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Li Ma

This is a continuation of the research in [16]. Let $(\overline{M},g_{-1})$ be a closed geodesic $r_0$-ball in the hyperbolic space $(\mathbb{H}^n,g_{-1})$. Let $m\neq1$ be a positive constant. In this paper, we show that for $n\geq3$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Gang Li