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Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 José N. V. Gomes , Matheus Hudson , Carlos M. de Sousa

This is a revised version of our short note [arxiv.math.DG/0403065] where we discuss the monotonicity of the eigen-values of the Laplacian operator to the Ricci-Hamilton flow on a compact or a complete non-compact Riemannian manifold. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Li Ma

This article presents new parabolic and elliptic type gradient estimates for positive smooth solutions to a nonlinear parabolic equation involving the Witten Laplacian in the context of smooth metric measure spaces. The metric and potential…

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This paper attempts to construct monotonic entropy functionals for four-dimensional Lorentzian spacetime under physical boundary conditions, as an extension of Perelman's monotonic entropy functionals constructed for three-dimensional…

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In this paper we show the existence of weak solutions $w : M \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ of the inverse mean curvature flow starting from a relatively compact set (possibly, a point) on a large class of manifolds satisfying Ricci lower bounds.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Luciano Mari , Marco Rigoli , Alberto Giulio Setti

In this paper, we prove the $W$-entropy formula and the monotonicity and rigidity theorem of the $W$-entropy for the heat flow on RCD$(K, N)$ and RCD$(K, n, N)$ spaces $(X, d, \mu)$, where $K\in \mathbb{R}$, $n\in \mathbb{N}$ is the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Xiang-Dong Li , Enrui Zhang

In this article, we establish a monotonicity formula of Hamilton type entropy along Ricci flow on compact surfaces with boundary. We also study the relation between our entropy functional and the $\mathcal{W}$-functional of Perelman type.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Keita Kunikawa , Yohei Sakurai

In this note we prove a new \epsilon-regularity theorem for the Ricci flow. Let (M^n,g(t)) with t\in [-T,0] be a Ricci flow and H_{x} the conjugate heat kernel centered at a point (x,0) in the final time slice. Substituting H_{x} into…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-03 Hans-Joachim Hein , Aaron Naber

We extend the notion of Epstein maps to conformal metrics on submanifolds of the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^n=\partial_\infty\mathbb{H}^{n+1}$. Using this construction for curves in $\mathbb{S}^2$, we define the W-volume for conformal metrics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Jeffrey Brock , Franco Vargas Pallete

In this paper, we study the Ricci flow on closed manifolds equipped with warped product metric $(N\times F,g_{N}+f^2 g_{F})$ with $(F,g_{F})$ Ricci flat. Using the framework of monotone formulas, we derive several estimates for the adapted…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Hung Tran

In this work, we obtain some existence results of Chern-Ricci Flows and the corresponding Potential Flows on complex manifolds with possibly incomplete initial data. We discuss the behaviour of the solution as $t\rightarrow 0$. These…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Shaochuang Huang , Man-Chun Lee , Luen-Fai Tam

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

We give an application of a Huisken monotonicity-type formula for the mean curvature flow in a compact smooth manifold with a Riemannian metric that evolves by a shrinking self-similar solution of the extended Ricci flow. Our investigation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-25 José N. V. Gomes , Matheus Hudson , Hikaru Yamamoto

The Ricci flow is a heat equation for metrics, which has recently been used to study the topology of closed three manifolds. In this paper we apply Ricci flow techniques to general relativity. We view a three dimensional asymptotically flat…

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The long-time existence and umbilicity estimates for compact, graphical solutions to expanding curvature flows are deduced in Riemannian warped products of a real interval with a compact fibre. Notably we do not assume the ambient manifold…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Julian Scheuer

We study $n$-dimensional Ricci flows with non-negative Ricci curvature where the curvature is pointwise controlled by the scalar curvature and bounded by $C/t$, starting at metric cones which are Reifenberg outside the tip. We show that any…

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In this paper, we derive the evolution equation for the first eigenvalue of the Witten-Laplace operator acting on the space of functions along the mean curvature flow on a closed oriented manifold. We show some interesting monotonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-22 Shahroud Azami

In this paper, we derive from the supersymmetry of the Witten Laplacian Brascamp-Lieb's type inequalities for general differential forms on compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary. In addition to the supersymmetry, our results…

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Convexity properties of the entropy along displacement interpolations are crucial in the Lott-Sturm-Villani theory of lower bounded curvature of geodesic measure spaces. As discrete spaces fail to be geodesic, an alternate analogous theory…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Christian Léonard

In this paper, we study the Ricci flow on a closed manifold and finite time interval $[0,T)~(T < \infty)$ on which certain integral curvature energies are finite. We prove that in dimension four, such flow converges to a smooth Riemannian…

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