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In our previous work [PSSW], we showed that the Ricci flow on S^2 whose initial metric has conical singularities \sum_{j=1}^k \beta_j[p_j] converges to a constant curvature metric with conic singularities (in the stable and semi-stable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-17 D. H. Phong , Jian Song , Jacob Sturm , Xiaowei Wang

We show that for an immortal homogeneous Ricci flow solution any sequence of parabolic blow-downs subconverges to a homogeneous expanding Ricci soliton. This is established by constructing a new Lyapunov function based on curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Christoph Böhm , Ramiro A. Lafuente

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

We study sequences of 3-dimensional solutions to the Ricci flow with almost nonnegative sectional curvatures and diameters tending to infinity. Such sequences may arise from the limits of dilations about singularities of Type IIb. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-22 Bennett Chow , David Glickenstein , Peng Lu

This paper studies the normalized Ricci flow on surfaces with conical singularities. It's proved that the normalized Ricci flow has a solution for a short time for initial metrics with conical singularities. Moreover, the solution makes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Hao Yin

We study blow-ups around fixed points at Type I singularities of the Ricci flow on closed manifolds using Perelman's W-functional. First, we give an alternative proof of the result obtained by Naber and Enders-M\"{u}ller-Topping that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Carlo Mantegazza , Reto Müller

Important models for immortal solutions of Ricci flow that collapse with bounded curvature come from locally G-invariant solutions on principal bundles, where G is a nilpotent Lie group. In this paper, we establish convergence and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-06 Dan Knopf

In stark contrast to lower dimensions, we produce a plethora of ancient and immortal Ricci flows in real dimension $4$ with Einstein orbifolds as tangent flows at infinity. For instance, for any $k\in\mathbb{N}_0$, we obtain continuous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Alix Deruelle , Tristan Ozuch

We use Lott's functional and construct a new functional to derive rigidity results for invariant Ricci flow blowdown limits on nilpotent principal bundles with zero associated curvature. Consequently, we prove that the blowdown limit is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Steven Gindi

In this survey article, we discuss some topics on self-similar solutions to the Ricci flow and the mean curvature flow. Self-similar solutions to the Ricci flow are known as Ricci solitons. In the first part of this paper we discuss a lower…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-11 Akito Futaki

In this paper, we study $\kappa$-noncollapsed ancient solutions to the Ricci flow with nonnegative curvature operator in higher dimensions. We impose one further assumption: one of the asymptotic shrinking gradient Ricci solitons is the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Xiaolong Li , Yongjia Zhang

We prove uniform curvature estimates for homogeneous Ricci flows: For a solution defined on $[0,t]$ the norm of the curvature tensor at time $t$ is bounded by the maximum of $C(n)/t$ and $C(n) ( scal(g(t)) - scal(g(0)) )$. This is used to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Christoph Böhm , Ramiro Lafuente , Miles Simon

In dimension $n=3$, there is a complete theory of weak solutions of Ricci flow - the singular Ricci flows introduced by Kleiner and Lott - which are unique across singularities, as was proved by Bamler and Kleiner. We show that uniqueness…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-22 Sigurd B. Angenent , Dan Knopf

We prove that the restricted holonomy group of a complete smooth solution to the Ricci flow of uniformly bounded curvature cannot spontaneously contract in finite time; it follows, then, from an earlier result of Hamilton that the holonomy…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-19 Brett L. Kotschwar

As part of the general investigation of Ricci flow on complete surfaces with finite total curvature, we study this flow for surfaces with asymptotically conical (which includes as a special case asymptotically Euclidean) geometries. After…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-30 James Isenberg , Rafe Mazzeo , Natasa Sesum

In earlier work, we derived formal matched asymptotic profiles for families of Ricci flow solutions developing Type-II degenerate neckpinches. In the present work, we prove that there do exist Ricci flow solutions that develop singularities…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Sigurd B. Angenent , James Isenberg , Dan Knopf

In this paper we consider $4$-dimensional steady soliton singularity models, i.e., complete steady gradient Ricci solitons that arise as the rescaled limit of a finite time singular solution of the Ricci flow on a closed $4$-manifold. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Richard Bamler , Bennett Chow , Yuxing Deng , Zilu Ma , Yongjia Zhang

We develop a framework inspired by Lauret's "bracket flow" to study the generalized Ricci flow, as introduced by Streets, on discrete quotients of Lie groups. As a first application, we establish global existence on solvmanifolds in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Elia Fusi , Ramiro A. Lafuente , James Stanfield

We consider the initial value problem $u_t = \Delta \log u$, $u(x,0) = u_0(x)\ge 0$ in $\R^2$, corresponding to the Ricci flow, namely conformal evolution of the metric $u (dx_1^2 + dx_2^2)$ by Ricci curvature. It is well known that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Natasa Sesum

In this paper we investigate a kind of generalized Ricci flow which possesses a gradient form. We study the monotonicity of the given function under the generalized Ricci flow and prove that the related system of partial differential…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-19 Chun-lei He , Sen Hu , De-Xing Kong , Kefeng Liu