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Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Gang Li

We study the prescribed Ricci curvature problem for homogeneous metrics. Given a (0,2)-tensor field $T$, this problem asks for solutions to the equation $\mathrm{Ric}(g)=cT$ for some constant $c$. Our approach is based on examining global…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Artem Pulemotov , Wolfgang Ziller

In this paper, we propose a type of Ricci flow on graphs where the probability distribution for the Lin-Lu-Yau curvature remains constant over time, and also study the related Forman curvature flow. These two curvature flows coincide on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Shuliang Bai , Shuang Liu , Xin Lai

We consider smooth complete solutions to Ricci flow with bounded curvature on manifolds without boundary in dimension three. Assuming an open ball at time zero of radius one has curvature bounded from below by -1, then we prove estimates…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Miles Simon

We present a synthetic notion of scalar curvature (and its integral) for Riemannian manifolds and metric measure spaces, defined in terms of the initial slope of a Gaussian (double) integral. We explicitly calculate the integral scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Marco Flaim , Erik Hupp , Karl-Theodor Sturm

The Ricci flow is a partial differential equation for evolving the metric in a Riemannian manifold to make it more regular. On the other hand, neural networks seem to have similar geometric behavior for specific tasks. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Jun Chen , Tianxin Huang , Wenzhou Chen , Yong Liu

In this paper we consider three-manifolds with weakly umbilic boundary (the Second Fundamental form of the boundary is a constant multiple of the metric). We show that if the initial manifold has positive Ricci curvature and the boundary is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean Cortissoz

This survey reviews some facts about nonnegativity conditions on the curvature tensor of a Riemannian manifold which are preserved by the action of the Ricci flow. The text focuses on two main points. First we describe the known examples of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-21 Thomas Richard

We study the positive mass theorem for certain non-smooth metrics following P. Miao's work. Our approach is to smooth the metric using the Ricci flow. As well as improving some previous results on the behaviour of the ADM mass under the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Donovan McFeron , Gábor Székelyhidi

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

We present two characterizations of smooth compact Ricci flow solutions solely in terms of metrics and measures (one of them only works under positive scalar curvature along the flow); thus, provide weak formulations that are generalized to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Sajjad Lakzian

We discuss the geometry of warped foliations. After examining the Levi-Civita connection, we describe the formulae for sectional, Ricci and scalar curvatures. In the final part of this note, we present some examples.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-01-20 Szymon M. Walczak

In this paper, we introduce two discrete curvature flows, which are called $\alpha$-flows on two and three dimensional triangulated manifolds. For triangulated surface $M$, we introduce a new normalization of combinatorial Ricci flow (first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Huabin Ge , Xu Xu

The geometry of a ball within a Riemannian manifold is coarsely controlled if it has a lower bound on its Ricci curvature and a positive lower bound on its volume. We prove that such coarse local geometric control must persist for a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-03 Miles Simon , Peter M. Topping

We prove that S^2 x S^2 satisfies an intermediate condition between having metrics with positive Ricci and positive sectional curvature. Namely, there exist metrics for which the average of the sectional curvatures of any two planes tangent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Renato G. Bettiol

We study "warped Berger" solutions $\big(\mc S^1\times\mc S^3,G(t)\big)$ of Ricci flow: generalized warped products with the metric induced on each fiber $\{s\}\times\mathrm{SU}(2)$ a left-invariant Berger metric. We prove that this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-23 James Isenberg , Dan Knopf , Natasa Sesum

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

This paper is a review on recently found connection between geodesically equivalent metrics and integrable geodesic flows. Suppose two different metrics on one manifold have the same geodesics. We show that then the geodesic flows of these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-08 Vladimir S. Matveev , Petar J. Topalov

In this paper, we establish a framework for the analysis of linear parabolic equations on conical surfaces and use them to study the conical Ricci flow. In particular, we prove the long time existence of the conical Ricci flow for general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Hao Yin

We show that a complete Ricci flow of bounded curvature which begins from a manifold with a Ricci lower bound, local entropy bound, and small local scale-invariant integral curvature control will have global point-wise curvature control at…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Pak-Yeung Chan , Eric Chen , Man-Chun Lee