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In this paper we investigate a kind of generalized Ricci flow which possesses a gradient form. We study the monotonicity of the given function under the generalized Ricci flow and prove that the related system of partial differential…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-19 Chun-lei He , Sen Hu , De-Xing Kong , Kefeng Liu

In this paper, on 4-spheres equipped with Riemannian metrics we study some integral conformal invariants, the sign and size of which under Ricci flow characterize the standard 4-sphere. We obtain a conformal gap theorem, and for Yamabe…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-20 Sun-Yung Alice Chang , Eric Chen

We prove a curvature pinching result for the Ricci flow on asymptotically flat manifolds: if an asymptotically flat manifold of dimension $n\geq 3$ has scale-invariant integral norm of curvature sufficiently pinched relative to the inverse…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-01 Eric Chen

We consider the Ricci flow for simply connected nilmanifolds, which translates to a Ricci flow on the space of nilpotent metric Lie algebras. We consider the evolution of the inner product and the evolution of structure constants, as well…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-12 Tracy L. Payne

We generalize most of the known Ricci flow invariant non-negative curvature conditions to less restrictive negative bounds that remain sufficiently controlled for a short time. As an illustration of the contents of the paper, we prove that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-26 Richard H. Bamler , Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Burkhard Wilking

The Ricci flow is an evolution system on metrics. For a given metric as initial data, its local existence and uniqueness on compact manifolds was first established by Hamilton \cite{Ha1}. Later on, De Turck \cite{De} gave a simplified…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bing-Long Chen , Xi-Ping Zhu

In this paper we define an orientation of a measured Gromov-Hausdorff limit space of Riemannian manifolds with uniform Ricci bounds from below. This is the first observation of orientability for metric measure spaces. Our orientability has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-30 Shouhei Honda

We introduce a variation of the classical Ricci flow equation that modifies the unit volume constraint of that equation to a scalar curvature constraint. The resulting equations are named the Conformal Ricci Flow Equations because of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Arthur E. Fischer

In this work, we discuss the stability of the pluriclosed flow and generalized Ricci flow. We proved that if the second variation of generalized Einstein--Hilbert functional is nonpositive and the infinitesimal deformations are integrable,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Kuan-Hui Lee

We develop a stochastic target representation for Ricci flow and normalized Ricci flow on smooth, compact surfaces, analogous to Soner and Touzi's representation of mean curvature flow. We prove a verification/uniqueness theorem, and then…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-03-31 Robert W. Neel , Ionel Popescu

In this paper, we give a sufficient condition such that the Ricci flow in $R^2$ exists globally and the flow converges at $t=\infty$ to the flat metric on $R^2$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-30 Li Ma

In this paper, we show existence and uniqueness of Ricci flow whose initial condition is a compact Alexandrov surface with curvature bounded from below. This requires a weakening of the notion of initial condition which is able to deal with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-25 Thomas Richard

In 2011 Enders, M\"{u}ller and Topping showed that any blow up sequence of a Type I Ricci flow near a singular point converges to a non-trivial gradient Ricci soliton, leading them to conclude that for such flows all reasonable definitions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Gianmichele Di Matteo

We present numerical visualizations of Ricci Flow of surfaces and 3-dimensional manifolds of revolution. Ricci_rot is an educational tool which visualizes surfaces of revolution moving under Ricci flow. That these surfaces tend to remain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Hyam Rubinstein , Robert Sinclair

The two-loop renormalization group flow is studied via the induced bracket flow on 3D unimodular Lie groups. A number of steady solitons are found. Some of these steady solitons come from maximally symmetric metrics that are steady,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-21 David Glickenstein , Liang Wu

In the present work we find the Lie point symmetries of the Ricci flow on an $n$-dimensional manifold. and we introduce a method in order to reutilize these symmetries to obtain the Lie point symmetries of particular metrics. We apply this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Enrique López , Stylianos Dimas , Yuri Bozhkov

We prove a comparison theorem for the isoperimetric profiles of solutions of the normalized Ricci flow on the two-sphere: If the isoperimetric profile of the initial metric is greater than that of some positively curved axisymmetric metric,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-26 Ben Andrews , Paul Bryan

We formulate and solve the existence problem for Ricci flow on a Riemann surface with initial data given by a Radon measure as volume measure. The theory leads us to a large class of new examples of nongradient expanding Ricci solitons,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Peter M. Topping , Hao Yin

Regarding Ricci flow as a dynamical system, we derive sufficient conditions for noncompact stationary (Ricci-flat) solutions to possess infinite-dimensional unstable manifolds, and provide examples satisfying those criteria that have…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Sigurd B. Angenent , Dan Knopf

Important models for immortal solutions of Ricci flow that collapse with bounded curvature come from locally G-invariant solutions on principal bundles, where G is a nilpotent Lie group. In this paper, we establish convergence and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-06 Dan Knopf