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We give an application of a Huisken monotonicity-type formula for the mean curvature flow in a compact smooth manifold with a Riemannian metric that evolves by a shrinking self-similar solution of the extended Ricci flow. Our investigation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-25 José N. V. Gomes , Matheus Hudson , Hikaru Yamamoto

We study mean curvature flow in $\mathbb S_K^{n+1}$, the round sphere of sectional curvature $K>0$, under the quadratic curvature pinching condition $|A|^{2} < \frac{1}{n-2} H^{2} + 4 K$ when $n\ge 4$ and $|A|^{2} <…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Mat Langford , Huy The Nguyen

We study Hawking mass and the Huisken's isoperimetric mass evaluated on surfaces with boundary. The convergence to an ADM mass defined on asymptotically flat manifold with a non-compact boundary are proved.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Xiaoxiang Chai

We study connections among the ADM mass, positive harmonic functions tending to zero at infinity, and the capacity of the boundary of asymptotically flat $3$-manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature. First we give new formulae that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Pengzi Miao

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

We complete the proof of the Generalized Smale Conjecture, apart from the case of $RP^3$, and give a new proof of Gabai's theorem for hyperbolic 3-manifolds. We use an approach based on Ricci flow through singularities, which applies…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Richard H. Bamler , Bruce Kleiner

We derive new, sharp lower bounds for certain curvature functionals on the space of Riemannian metrics of a smooth compact 4-manifold with a non-trivial Seiberg-Witten invariant. These allow one, for example, to exactly compute the infimum…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Claude LeBrun

We make rigorous an old idea of using mean curvature flow to prove a theorem of Richard Hamilton on the compactness of proper hypersurfaces with pinched, bounded curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-24 Theodora Bourni , Mat Langford , Stephen Lynch

In this paper, we prove a general maximum principle for the time dependent Lichnerowicz heat equation on symmetric tensors coupled with the Ricci flow on complete Riemannian manifolds. As an application we construct complete manifolds with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lei Ni

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…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Ao Sun

In this paper we consider the Ricci flow on manifolds with boundary with appropriate control on its mean curvature and conformal class. We obtain higher order estimates for the curvature and second fundamental form near the boundary,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-07 Panagiotis Gianniotis

We present a numerical investigation of the evolution of the Hawking mass for perturbed surfaces evolving under hypersurface-restricted uniformly expanding flows in Minkowski spacetime. Although monotonicity of the Hawking mass under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Hollis Williams

Under the assumption of the uniform local Sobolev inequality, it is proved that Riemannian metrics with an absolute Ricci curvature bound and a small Riemannian curvature integral bound can be smoothed to having a sectional curvature bound.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-12 Yunyan Yang

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

A family of quasilocal mass definitions that includes as special cases the Hawking mass and the Brown-York ``rest mass'' energy is derived for spacelike 2-surfaces in spacetime. The definitions involve an integral of powers of the norm of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephen C. Anco

We propose a notion of scalar curvature lower bounds in a three-dimensional Riemannian manifold endowed with a $C^0$ metric based on the monotonicity of the Hawking mass along the inverse mean curvature flow. We present a stability theorem…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Mattia Fogagnolo , Giorgio Gatti , Alessandra Pluda

We propose a new definition of the ADM mass for asymptotically Euclidean manifolds inspired by the definition of mass for weakly regular asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds by Gicquaud and Sakovich. This version of the mass allows one to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Stig Lundgren , Benjamin Meco

We study an analogue of the Calabi flow in the non-K\"ahler setting for compact Hermitian manifolds with vanishing first Bott-Chern class. We prove a priori estimates for the evolving metric along the flow given a uniform bound on the Chern…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Xi Sisi Shen

In this paper we study the Ricci flow on compact four-manifolds with positive isotropic curvature and with no essential incompressible space form. Our purpose is two-fold. One is to give a complete proof of Hamilton's classification theorem…

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

A comparison theorem for the isoperimetric profile on the universal cover of surfaces evolving by normalised Ricci flow is proven. For any initial metric, a model comparison is constructed that initially lies below the profile of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Paul Bryan