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In this work, we prove uniqueness for complete non-compact Ricci flow with scaling invariant curvature bound. This generalizes the earlier work of Chen-Zhu, Kotschwar and covers most of the example of Ricci flows with unbounded curvature.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Man-Chun Lee

In this article, we study the Ricci flow neckpinch in the context of metric measure spaces. We introduce the notion of a Ricci flow metric measure spacetime and of a weak (refined) super Ricci flow associated to convex cost functions (cost…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Sajjad Lakzian , Michael Munn

We establish Lipschitz regularity of harmonic maps from $\mathrm{RCD}(K,N)$ metric measure spaces with lower Ricci curvature bounds and dimension upper bounds in synthetic sense with values into $\mathrm{CAT}(0)$ metric spaces with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Andrea Mondino , Daniele Semola

In this note we prove that on metric measure spaces, functions of least gradient, as well as local minimizers of the area functional (after modification on a set of measure zero) are continuous everywhere outside their jump sets. As a tool,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-10 Heikki Hakkarainen , Riikka Korte , Panu Lahti , Nageswari Shanmugalingam

We study the new geometric flow that was introduced in [11] that evolves a pair of map and (domain) metric in such a way that it changes appropriate initial data into branched minimal immersions. In the present paper we focus on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-01 Melanie Rupflin

We show that every real-valued Lipschitz function on a subset of a metric space can be extended to the whole space while preserving the slope and, up to a small error, the global Lipschitz constant. This answers a question posed by Di…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Nicolò De Ponti , Jacopo Somaglia

In this note we reprove a theorem of Gromov using Ricci flow. The theorem states that a, possibly non-constant, lower bound on the scalar curvature is stable under $C^0$-convergence of the metric.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-04 Richard H Bamler

An existence and uniqueness result, up to fattening, for crystalline mean curvature flows with forcing and arbitrary (convex) mobilities, is proven. This is achieved by introducing a new notion of solution to the corresponding level set…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-13 Antonin Chambolle , Massimiliano Morini , Matteo Novaga , Marcello Ponsiglione

We introduce a new geometric flow of Hermitian metrics which evolves an initial metric along the second derivative of the Chern scalar curvature. The flow depends on the choice of a background metric, it always reduces to a scalar equation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Lucio Bedulli , Luigi Vezzoni

For large classes of non-convex subsets $Y$ in ${\mathbb R}^n$ or in Riemannian manifolds $(M,g)$ or in RCD-spaces $(X,d,m)$ we prove that the gradient flow for the Boltzmann entropy on the restricted metric measure space $(Y,d_Y,m_Y)$…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Janna Lierl , Karl-Theodor Sturm

We study the heat equation on time-dependent metric measure spaces (as well as the dual and the adjoint heat equation) and prove existence, uniqueness and regularity. Of particular interest are properties which characterize the underlying…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Eva Kopfer , Karl-Theodor Sturm

A recurring obstacle in the study of Wasserstein gradient flow is the lack of convexity of the square Wasserstein metric. In this paper, we develop a class of transport metrics that have better convexity properties and use these metrics to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-06 Katy Craig

The nonlinear wave equation $u_{tt}-c(u)(c(u)u_x)_x=0$ determines a flow of conservative solutions taking values in the space $H^1(\mathbb{R})$. However, this flow is not continuous w.r.t. the natural $H^1$ distance. Aim of this paper is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Alberto Bressan , Geng Chen

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

The main goal of this paper is to present results of existence and non-existence of convex functions on Riemannian manifolds and, in the case of the existence, we associate such functions to the geometry of the manifold. Precisely, we prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-13 J. X. Cruz Neto , Ítalo Melo , Paulo Sousa

With respect to any special boundary defining function, a conformally compact asymptotically hyperbolic metric has an asymptotic expansion near its conformal infinity. If this expansion is even to a certain order and satisfies one extra…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Eric Bahuaud , Rafe Mazzeo , Eric Woolgar

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

First we investigate the evolutions of the radius function and its gradient along the volume-preserving mean curvature flow starting from a tube (of nonconstant radius) over a compact closed domain of a reflective submanifold in a symmetric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-30 Naoyuki Koike

Two flows on a finite-dimensional normed space $X$ are Lipschitz equivalent if some homeomorphism $h$ of $X$ that is bi-Lipschitz near the origin preserves all orbits, i.e., $h$ maps each orbit onto an orbit. A complete classification by…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Arno Berger , Anthony Wynne

We consider the Cauchy problem for the gradient flow \begin{equation} \label{eq:81} \tag{$\star$} u'(t)=-\nabla\phi(u(t)),\quad t\ge 0;\quad u(0)=u_0, \end{equation} generated by a continuously differentiable function $\phi:\mathbb H \to…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Florentine Fleißner , Giuseppe Savaré