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We study solutions to generalized Ricci flow on four-manifolds with a nilpotent, codimension $1$ symmetry. We show that all such flows are immortal, and satisfy type III curvature and diameter estimates. Using a new kind of monotone energy…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Steven Gindi , Jeffrey Streets

We study the Ricci flow for initial metrics with positive isotropic curvature (strictly PIC for short). In the first part of this paper, we prove new curvature pinching estimates which ensure that blow-up limits are uniformly PIC in all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-21 S. Brendle

We explore the harmonic-Ricci flow---that is, Ricci flow coupled with harmonic map flow---both as it arises naturally in certain principal bundle constructions related to Ricci flow and as a geometric flow in its own right. We demonstrate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-12-18 Michael Bradford Williams

We prove long-time existence of the Ricci flow starting from complete manifolds with bounded curvature and scale-invariant integral curvature sufficiently pinched with respect to the inverse of its Sobolev constant. Moreover, if the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Albert Chau , Adam Martens

In this paper, we are interested in conical structures of manifolds with respect to the Ricci flow and, in particular, we study them from the point of view of Perelman's functionals. In a first part, we study Perelman's $\lambda$ and $\nu$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Tristan Ozuch

We prove that a three dimensional compact Ricci flow that encounters a Type I singularity has uniformly bounded diameter up to the singular time, thus giving an affirmative answer - for Type I singularities - to a conjecture of Perelman. To…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Panagiotis Gianniotis

We consider the kinematics of specific fluid spacetimes admitting timelike congruences of Ricci Solitons. These fluids includes string cloud, string fluid, perfect fluid, radially symmetric fluid, anisotropic fluid and relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-12 Umber Sheikh

In this note we attempt to propose a categorical framework for the Ricci flow, treating it as a sequence of functors connecting the stack of Riemannian metrics to the category of geometric decompositions via singular flow spacetimes. To…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Alexander Plakhotnikov

In this expository article, we introduce the topological ideas and context central to the Poincare Conjecture. Our account is intended for a general audience, providing intuitive definitions and spatial intuition whenever possible. We…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2011-01-04 Scott D. Kominers

We consider the normalized Ricci flow $\del_t g = (\rho - R)g$ with initial condition a complete metric $g_0$ on an open surface $M$ where $M$ is conformal to a punctured compact Riemann surface and $g_0$ has ends which are asymptotic to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-11 Lizhen Ji , Rafe Mazzeo , Natasa Sesum

In stark contrast to lower dimensions, we produce a plethora of ancient and immortal Ricci flows in real dimension $4$ with Einstein orbifolds as tangent flows at infinity. For instance, for any $k\in\mathbb{N}_0$, we obtain continuous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Alix Deruelle , Tristan Ozuch

We simplify and improve the curvature estimates in the paper: On the conditions to extend Ricci flow(II). Furthermore, we develop some volume estimates for the Ricci flow with bounded scalar curvature. These estimates can be applied to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-21 Xiuxiong Chen , Bing Wang

We study the long time behaviour of Ricci flow with bubbling-off on a possibly noncompact $3$-manifold of finite volume whose universal cover has bounded geometry. As an application, we give a Ricci flow proof of Thurston's hyperbolisation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-22 Laurent Bessières , Gérard Besson , Sylvain Maillot

Giving explicit parametrizations of discrete constant Gaussian curvature surfaces of revolution that are defined from an integrable systems approach, we study Ricci flow for discrete surfaces, and see how discrete surfaces of revolution…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Naoya Suda

We discuss from a geometric point of view the connection between the renormalization group flow for non--linear sigma models and the Ricci flow. This offers new perspectives in providing a geometrical landscape for 2D quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-21 Mauro Carfora

We derive, under a technical assumption, the first variation formula for the eigenvalues of the Laplacian on a closed manifold evolving by the Ricci flow and give some applications.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Luca Fabrizio Di Cerbo

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

In dimension $n=3$, there is a complete theory of weak solutions of Ricci flow - the singular Ricci flows introduced by Kleiner and Lott - which are unique across singularities, as was proved by Bamler and Kleiner. We show that uniqueness…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-22 Sigurd B. Angenent , Dan Knopf

We study the evolution of wormhole geometries under Ricci flow using numerical methods. Depending on values of initial data parameters, wormhole throats either pinch off or evolve to a monotonically growing state. The transition between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Viqar Husain , Sanjeev S. Seahra

In this paper, we adopt combinatorial Ricci curvature flow methods to study the existence of cusped hyperbolic structure on 3-manifolds with torus boundary. For general pseudo 3-manifolds, we prove the long-time existence and the uniqueness…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Ke Feng , Huabin Ge , Bobo Hua