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Inspired by the idea of Colding-Minicozzi in [CM1], we define (mean curvature flow) entropy for submanifolds in a general ambient Riemannian manifold. In particular, this entropy is equivalent to area growth of a closed submanifold in a…

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The mean curvature flow describes the evolution of a surface (a curve) with normal velocity proportional to the local mean curvature. It has many applications in mathematics, science and engineering. In this paper, we develop a numerical…

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We discuss a natural form of Ricci--flow conjugation between two distinct general relativistic data sets given on a compact $n\geq 3$-dimensional manifold $\Sigma$. We establish the existence of the relevant entropy functionals for the…

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Various curvature conditions are studied on metrics admitting a symmetry group. We begin by examining a method of diagonalizing cohomogeneity-one Einstein manifolds and determine when this method can and cannot be used. Examples, including…

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We develop a geometric formulation of fluid dynamics, valid on arbitrary Riemannian manifolds, that regards the momentum-flux and stress tensors as 1-form valued 2-forms, and their divergence as a covariant exterior derivative. We review…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-14 Andrew D. Gilbert , Jacques Vanneste

This is a survey paper focusing on the interplay between the curvature and topology of a Riemannian manifold. The first part of the paper provides a background discussion, aimed at non-experts, of Hopf's pinching problem and the Sphere…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-01 S. Brendle , R. M. Schoen

The present chapter gives an overview on results for discrete knot energies. These discrete energies are designed to make swift numerical computations and thus open the field to computational methods. Additionally, they provide an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Sebastian Scholtes

Weyl derivatives, Weyl-Lie derivatives and conformal submersions are defined, then used to generalize the Jones-Tod correspondence between selfdual 4-manifolds with symmetry and Einstein-Weyl 3-manifolds with an abelian monopole. In this…

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Two recent articles \cite{ashtekar2015general, moncrief2019could} suggested an interesting dynamical mechanism within the framework of the vacuum Einstein flow (or Einstein-$\Lambda$ flow if a positive cosmological constant $\Lambda$ is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-23 Vincent Moncrief , Puskar Mondal

Combinatorial Ricci flow on a cusped $3$-manifold is an analogue of Chow-Luo's combinatorial Ricci flow on surfaces and Luo's combinatorial Ricci flow on compact $3$-manifolds with boundary for finding complete hyperbolic metrics on cusped…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Xu Xu

The anomalous scaling of Newton's constant around the Reuter fixed point is dynamically computed using the functional flow equation approach. Specifically, we thoroughly analyze the flow of the most general conformally reduced…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-28 Alfio Bonanno , Maria Conti , Dario Zappalà

Aim of this paper is to discuss convergence of pointed metric measure spaces in absence of any compactness condition. We propose various definitions, show that all of them are equivalent and that for doubling spaces these are also…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Nicola Gigli , Andrea Mondino , Giuseppe Savaré

In this paper, we study closed four-dimensional manifolds. In particular, we show that under various new pinching curvature conditions (for example, the sectional curvature is no more than 5/6 of the smallest Ricci eigenvalue) then the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Xiaodong Cao , Hung Tran

Weighted Ricci curvatures with various weights of the S-curvature have played an important role in Finsler geometry, especially in the control of volumes of Finsler manifolds. In this paper, we study general weighted Ricci curvatures, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Zhongmin Shen , Runzhong Zhao

A critical point metric is a critical point of the total scalar curvature functional restricted to the space of constant scalar curvature metrics on a closed manifold with unit volume. It was conjectured in 1980's that every critical point…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Tongzhu Li , Junlong Yu

We analyze numerically a forward-backward diffusion equation with a cubic-like diffusion function, -emerging in the framework of phase transitions modeling- and its "entropy" formulation determined by considering it as the singular limit of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-08-31 Pauline Lafitte , Corrado Mascia

This is a survey of some of the recent developments on the geometric and analytic aspects of the Anomaly flow. It is a flow of $(2,2)$-forms on a $3$-fold which was originally motivated by string theory and the need to preserve the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Duong H. Phong , Sebastien Picard , Xiangwen Zhang

In this article we give a classification of three dimensional m-quasi Einstein manifolds with two distinct Ricci-eigen values. Our study provides explicit description of local and complete metrics and potential functions. We also describe…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Jongsu Kim , Jinwoo Shin

The gauge gravity action for general relativity in any dimension using a connection for the Euclidean or Poincar\'e group and a symmetry-breaking scalar field is written using a particularly simple matrix technique. A discrete version of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-13 John W. Barrett , Steven Kerr

We consider the Kaehler-Ricci flow on complete finite-volume metrics that live on the complement of a divisor in a compact Kaehler manifold X. Assuming certain spatial asymptotics on the initial metric, we compute the singularity time in…

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