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For homogeneous metrics on the spaces of the title it is shown that the Ricci flow can move a metric of stricly positive sectional curvature to one with some negative sectional curvature and one of positive definite Ricci tensor to one with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-16 Man-Wai Cheung , Nolan R. Wallach

In this paper, we continue to study the generalized Ricci flow. We give a criterion on steady gradient Ricci soliton on complete and noncompact Riemannian manifolds that is Ricci-flat, and then introduce a natural flow whose stable points…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Yi Li

Quasi-Einstein manifolds are well-studied generalizations of Einstein manifolds. This includes gradient Ricci solitons and has a natural correspondence with the warped product Einstein manifolds. A quasi-Einstein metric is said to be rigid…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Atreyee Bhattacharya , Sayoojya Prakash

In this paper we prove that given a smoothly conformally compact metric there is a short-time solution to the Ricci flow that remains smoothly conformally compact. We adapt recent results of Schn\"urer, Schulze and Simon to prove a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Eric Bahuaud

We establish a short-time existence theory for complete Ricci flows under scaling-invariant curvature bounds, starting from rotationally symmetric metrics on $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ that are noncollapsed at infinity, without assuming bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Ming Hsiao

We give a simple proof for the rotational symmetry of ancient solutions of Ricci flow on surfaces. As a consequence we obtain a simple proof of some results of P.Daskalopoulos, R.Hamilton and N.Sesum on the a priori estimates for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-12 Shu-Yu Hsu

The metric on the moduli space of one abelian Higgs vortex on a surface has a natural geometrical evolution as the Bradlow parameter, which determines the vortex size, varies. It is shown by various arguments, and by calculations in special…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicholas S. Manton

We prove that the Ricci flow for complete metrics with bounded geometry depends continuously on initial conditions for finite time with no loss of regularity. This relies on our recent work where sectoriality for the generator of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Eric Bahuaud , Christine Guenther , James Isenberg , Rafe Mazzeo

Until recently, Ricci flow was viewed almost exclusively as a way of deforming Riemannian metrics of bounded curvature. Unfortunately, the bounded curvature hypothesis is unnatural for many applications, but is hard to drop because so many…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-01 Peter M. Topping

The Ricci flow equation of a conformally flat Riemannian metric on a closed 2-dimensional configuration space is analysed. It turns out to be equivalent to the classical Hamilton-Jacobi equation for a point particle subject to a potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-24 J. M. Isidro , J. L. G. Santander , P. Fernandez de Cordoba

Neural networks with PDEs embedded in their loss functions (physics-informed neural networks) are employed as a function approximators to find solutions to the Ricci flow (a curvature based evolution) of Riemannian metrics. A general method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-13 Aarjav Jain , Challenger Mishra , Pietro Liò

In this paper we study the evolution of almost non-negatively curved (possibly singular) three dimensional metric spaces by Ricci flow. The non-negatively curved metric spaces which we consider arise as limits of smooth Riemannian manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Miles Simon

We construct the classical mechanics associated with a conformally flat Riemannian metric on a compact, n-dimensional manifold without boundary. The corresponding gradient Ricci flow equation turns out to equal the time-dependent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-16 S. Abraham , P. Fernandez de Cordoba , J. M. Isidro , J. L. G. Santander

In this paper, we study the Ricci flow on manifolds with boundary. In the first part of the paper, we prove short-time existence and uniqueness of the solution, in which the boundary becomes instantaneously umbilic for positive time. In the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Tsz-Kiu Aaron Chow

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

We present a monotonic expression for the Ricci flow, valid in all dimensions and without curvature assumptions. It is interpreted as an entropy for a certain canonical ensemble. Several geometric applications are given. In particular, (1)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Grisha Perelman

We show how solutions to the Ricci flow on Lorentzian manifolds, along with its generalizations, can be linked to Einstein's field equations. The approach involves deformations of the matter sector that are generated by quadratic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-18 Tommaso Morone , Roberto Tateo

Ricci flow deforms the Riemannian metric proportionally to the curvature, such that the curvature evolves according to a heat diffusion process and eventually becomes constant everywhere. Ricci flow has demonstrated its great potential by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-03-31 Min Zhang , Ren Guo , Wei Zeng , Feng Luo , Shing-Tung Yau , Xianfeng Gu

We provide the classification of eternal (or ancient) solutions of the two-dimensional Ricci flow, which is equivalent to the fast diffusion equation $ \frac{\partial u}{\partial t} = \Delta \log u $ on $ \R^2 \times \R.$ We show that,…

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

A flow of metrics, $g_t$, on a manifold is a solution of a differential equation $\dt g = S(g)$, where a geometric functional $S(g)$ is a symmetric $(0,2)$-tensor usually related to some kind of curvature. The mixed sectional curvature of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-28 Vladimir Rovenski , Vladimir Sharafutdinov