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In this work, we use the Ricci flow approach to study the gap phenomenon of Riemannian manifolds with non-negative curvature and sub-critical scaling invariant curvature decay. The first main result is a quantitative Ricci flow existence…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Pak-Yeung Chan , Man-Chun Lee

We give a simple proof of an extension of the existence results of Ricci flow of G.Giesen and P.M.Topping [GiT1],[GiT2], on incomplete surfaces with bounded above Gauss curvature without using the difficult Shi's existence theorem of Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-11-11 Shu-Yu Hsu

We study real-valued valuations on the space of Lipschitz functions over the Euclidean unit sphere $S^{n-1}$. After introducing an appropriate notion of convergence, we show that continuous valuations are bounded on sets which are bounded…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-13 Andrea Colesanti , Daniele Pagnini , Pedro Tradacete , Ignacio Villanueva

We develop a compactness theory for super Ricci flows, which lays the foundations for the partial regularity theory in [Bam20b]. Our results imply that any sequence of super Ricci flows of the same dimension that is pointed in an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Richard H Bamler

We present a monotonic expression for the Ricci flow, valid in all dimensions and without curvature assumptions. It is interpreted as an entropy for a certain canonical ensemble. Several geometric applications are given. In particular, (1)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Grisha Perelman

This paper investigates geometric properties and well-posedness of a mean curvature flow with volume-dependent forcing. With the class of forcing which bounds the volume of the evolving set away from zero and infinity, we show that a strong…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Inwon Kim , Dohyun Kwon

This paper is devoted to analyse the Dirichlet problem for a nonlinear elliptic equation involving the $1$--Laplacian and a total variation term, that is, the inhomogeneous case of the equation arising in the level set formulation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-25 M. Latorre , S. Segura de León

We establish a unique continuation property for solutions of the differential inequality $|\nabla u|\leq V|u|$, where $V$ is locally $L^n$ integrable on a domain in $\mathbb R^n$. A stronger uniqueness result is obtained if in addition the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-05 Adam Coffman , Yifei Pan , Yuan Zhang

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

We prove a so called $\kappa$ non-inflating property for Ricci flow, which provides an upper bound for volume ratio of geodesic balls over Euclidean ones, under an upper bound for scalar curvature. This result can be regarded as the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-11 Qi S. Zhang

This article is devoted to presenting an abstract theory on time-fractional gradient flows for nonconvex energy functionals in Hilbert spaces. Main results consist of local and global in time existence of (continuous) strong solutions to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Goro Akagi , Yoshihito Nakajima

As part of the general investigation of Ricci flow on complete surfaces with finite total curvature, we study this flow for surfaces with asymptotically conical (which includes as a special case asymptotically Euclidean) geometries. After…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-30 James Isenberg , Rafe Mazzeo , Natasa Sesum

We analyze the constant step size subgradient method on nonsmooth, nonconvex functions. We identify geometric assumptions on the objective function under which i) its domain admits a partition (stratification) into smooth manifolds (strata)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Evgenii Chzhen , Sholom Schechtman

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 prove that if the Ricci tensor $\mathrm{Ric}$ of a geodesically complete Riemannian manifold $M$, endowed with the Riemannian distance $\mathsf{d}$ and the Riemannian measure $\mathfrak{m}$, is bounded from below by a continuous function…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Mathias Braun , Batu Güneysu

We use the framework of a type of abstract convexity ($\Phi_{lsc}$-convexity) to investigate properties of lower semicontinuous quadratically minorized functions in Hilbert spaces. A new result, which states that, for every local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-13 Monika Syga

We develop foundational theory for the Laplacian flow for closed G_2 structures which will be essential for future study. (1). We prove Shi-type derivative estimates for the Riemann curvature tensor Rm and torsion tensor T along the flow,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Jason D. Lotay , Yong Wei

We establish the short-time existence of the Ricci flow on surfaces with a finite number of conic points, all with cone angle between 0 and $2\pi$, where the cone angles remain fixed or change in some smooth prescribed way. For the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Rafe Mazzeo , Yanir A. Rubinstein , Natasa Sesum

On a compact Riemannian manifold, we study the various dynamical properties of the Schr\"odinger flow $(e^{it\Delta/2})$, through the notion of semiclassical measures and the quantum-classical correspondence between the Schr\"odinger…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-11 Nalini Anantharaman , Fabricio Macia

The convergence theory for the gradient sampling algorithm is extended to directionally Lipschitz functions. Although directionally Lipschitz functions are not necessarily locally Lipschitz, they are almost everywhere differentiable and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-13 James V. Burke , Qiuying Lin