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We investigate gravity models emerging from nonholonomic (subjected to non-integrable constraints) Ricci flows. Considering generalizations of G. Perelman's entropy functionals, relativistic geometric flow equations, nonholonomic Ricci…

General Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Iuliana Bubuianu , Sergiu I. Vacaru , Elşen Veli Veliev

We elaborate on quantum geometric information flows, QGIFs, and emergent (modified) Einstein-Maxwell and Kaluza-Klein, KK, theories formulated in Lagrange-Hamilton and general covariant variables. There are considered nonholonomic…

General Physics · Physics 2021-02-01 Iuliana Bubuianu , Sergiu I. Vacaru , Elsen Veli Veliev

This work consists an introduction to the classical and quantum information theory of geometric flows of (relativistic) Lagrange--Hamilton mechanical systems. Basic geometric and physical properties of the canonical nonholonomic…

General Physics · Physics 2020-07-27 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We study geometric relativistic flow and Ricci soliton equations which (for respective nonholonomic constraints and self-similarity conditions) are equivalent to the gravitational field equations of $R^2$ gravity and/or to the Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-25 Tamara Gheorghiu , Vyacheslav Ruchin , Olivia Vacaru , Sergiu I. Vacaru

We develop an approach to the theory of relativistic geometric flows and emergent gravity defined by entropy functionals and related statistical thermodynamics models. Nonholonomic deformations of G. Perelman's functionals and related…

General Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Sergiu I. Vacaru , Elşen Veli Veliev , Laurenţiu Bubuianu

In 1870s, L. Boltzmann proved the famous $H$-theorem for the Boltzmann equation in the kinetic theory of gas and gave the statistical interpretation of the thermodynamic entropy. In 2002, G. Perelman introduced the notion of $W$-entropy and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-22 Xiang-Dong Li

Perelman has given a gradient formulation for the Ricci flow, introducing an ``entropy function'' which increases monotonically along the flow.We pursue a thermodynamic analogy and apply Ricci flow ideas to general relativity. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Joseph Samuel , Sutirtha Roy Chowdhury

We introduce Perelman's $W$-entropy and prove the $W$-entropy formula along the geodesic flow on the $L^2$-Wasserstein space over compact Riemannian manifolds equipped with Otto's Riemannian metric, which allows us to recapture a previous…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Songzi Li , Xiang-Dong Li

In this survey paper, we give an overview of our recent works on the study of the $W$-entropy for the heat equation associated with the Witten Laplacian on super-Ricci flows and the Langevin deformation on Wasserstein space over Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Songzi Li , Xiang-Dong Li

This book gives an introduction to fundamental aspects of generalized Riemannian, complex, and K\"ahler geometry. This leads to an extension of the classical Einstein-Hilbert action, which yields natural extensions of Einstein and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Mario Garcia-Fernandez , Jeffrey Streets

The gravitational field equations in general relativity (GR) consist of a sophisticated system of nonlinear partial differential equations. Solving such equations in some generic off-diagonal forms is usually a hard analytic or numeric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-18 Sergiu I. Vacaru , Elşen V. Veliev

We formulate a statistical analogy of regular Lagrange mechanics and Finsler geometry derived from Grisha Perelman's functionals generalized for nonholonomic Ricci flows. There are elaborated explicit constructions when nonholonomically…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Sergiu I. Vacaru

This is the second paper in a series of works devoted to nonholonomic Ricci flows. By imposing non-integrable (nonholonomic) constraints on the Ricci flows of Riemannian metrics we can model mutual transforms of generalized Finsler-Lagrange…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We formulate the fractional Ricci flow theory for (pseudo) Riemannian geometries enabled with nonholonomic distributions defining fractional integro-differential structures, for non-integer dimensions. There are constructed fractional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-13 Sergiu I. Vacaru

In this paper, it is elaborated the theory the Ricci flows for manifolds enabled with nonintegrable (nonholonomic) distributions defining nonlinear connection structures. Such manifolds provide a unified geometric arena for nonholonomic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sergiu I. Vacaru

Non linear sigma models are quantum field theories describing, in the large deviations sense, random fluctuations of harmonic maps between a Riemann surface and a Riemannian manifold. Via their formal renormalization group analysis, they…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-05-06 Mauro Carfora

In this paper, we extend Perelman's $W$-entropy formula and the concavity of the Shannon entropy power from smooth Ricci flow to super Ricci flows on metric measure spaces. Moreover, we prove the Li-Yau-Hamilton-Perelman Harnack inequality…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Xiang-Dong Li

$\mathscr{W}$-entropy and reduced volume for the Ricci flow were introduced by Perelman, which had proved their importance in the study of the Ricci flow. L. Ni studied the analogous concepts for the linear heat equation on the static…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Guoyi Xu

We prove the existence and uniqueness of a weighted analogue of the Fefferman-Graham ambient metric for manifolds with density. We then show that this ambient metric forms the natural geometric framework for the singular Ricci flow: given a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Ayush Khaitan

We extend to a theory of nonassociative geometric flows a string-inspired model of nonassociative gravity determined by star product and R-flux deformations. The nonassociative Ricci tensor and curvature scalar defined by (non) symmetric…

General Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 Laurenţiu Bubuianu , Sergiu I. Vacaru , Elşen Veli Veliev
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