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We prove short time existence for the Ricci flow on open manifolds of nonnegative complex sectional curvature. We do not require upper curvature bounds. By considering the doubling of convex sets contained in a Cheeger-Gromoll convex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-24 Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Burkhard Wilking

We prove a general existence result for instantaneously complete Ricci flows starting at an arbitrary Riemannian surface which may be incomplete and may have unbounded curvature. We give an explicit formula for the maximal existence time,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-13 Gregor Giesen , Peter M. Topping

In this paper we study $n$-dimensional Ricci flows $(M^n,g(t))_{t\in [0,T)},$ where $T< \infty$ is a potentially singular time, and for which the spatial $L^p$ norm, $p>\frac n 2$, of the scalar curvature is uniformly bounded on $[0,T).$ In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Jiawei Liu , Miles Simon

In this paper we consider the prescribed mean curvature flow of a non-compact space-like Cauchy hypersurface of bounded geometry in a generalized Robertson-Walker space-time. We prove that the flow preserves the space-likeness condition and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Giuseppe Gentile , Boris Vertman

In this paper, we discuss diameter bound and Gromov-Hausdorff convergence of a twisted conical K\"ahler-Ricci flow on the total spaces of some holomorphic submersions. We also observe that, starting from a model conical K\"ahler metric with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Yashan Zhang

In this paper, we show that starting from a geodesic ball $\overline{B_{r_0}}(0)$ in $\mathbb{H}^n$, for $n\geq3$, with prescribed non-decreasing rotationally symmetric mean curvature and the fixed conformal class $[g_{\mathbb{S}^{n-1}}]$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Gang Li

We use a first-order energy quantity to prove a strengthened statement of uniqueness for the Ricci flow. One consequence of this statement is that if a complete solution on a noncompact manifold has uniformly bounded Ricci curvature, then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-30 Brett Kotschwar

In this paper we consider the local $L^p$ estimate of Riemannian curvature for the Ricci-harmonic flow or List's flow introduced by List \cite{List2005} on complete noncompact manifolds. As an application, under the assumption that the flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Yi Li , Miaosen Zhang

In this paper, we construct local and global solutions to the K\"ahler-Ricci flow from a non-collapsed K\"ahler manifold with curvature bounded from below. Combines with the mollification technique of McLeod-Simon-Topping, we show that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Man-Chun Lee , Luen-Fai Tam

We prove that the restricted holonomy group of a complete smooth solution to the Ricci flow of uniformly bounded curvature cannot spontaneously contract in finite time; it follows, then, from an earlier result of Hamilton that the holonomy…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-19 Brett L. Kotschwar

We announce a new proof of the uniform estimate on the curvature of solutions to the Ricci flow on a compact K\"ahler manifold $M^n$ with positive bisectional curvature. In contrast to the recent work of X. Chen and G. Tian, our proof of…

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

We extend some results known for the K\"ahler-Ricci flow to the Chern-Ricci flow regarding the independence of singularity types for long-time solutions. Specifically, we show that if a solution to the Chern-Ricci flow exists with uniformly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-26 Hosea Wondo

In this note, we show that the conical K\"ahler-Ricci flows introduced in \cite{CYW} exist for all time $t\in [0,\infty)$ in the weak sense. As a key ingredient of the proof, we show that a conical K\"ahler-Ricci flow is actually the limit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-10 Yuanqi Wang

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

In this paper, we prove that if $g(t)$ is a smooth, complete solution to the Ricci flow of uniformly bounded curvature on $M\times[0, \Omega]$, then the correspondence $t\mapsto g(t)$ is real-analytic at each $t_0\in (0, \Omega)$. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-16 Brett Kotschwar

In this work, we study the H\"older regularity of the K\"ahler- Ricci flow on compact K\"ahler manifolds with semi-ample canonical line bundle. By adapting the method in the work of Hein-Tosatti on collapsing Calabi-Yau metrics, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Jianchun Chu , Man-Chun Lee

J. Streets and G. Tian recently introduced symplectic curvature flow, a geometric flow on almost K\"ahler manifolds generalising K\"ahler-Ricci flow. The present article gives examples of explicit solutions to this flow of non-K\"ahler…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-08 Julian Pook

We study complete noncompact long time solutions $(M, g(t))$ to the K\"ahler-Ricci flow with uniformly bounded nonnegative holomorphic bisectional curvature. We will show that when the Ricci curvature is positive and uniformly pinched, i.e.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-17 Albert Chau , Luen-Fai Tam

In this note, we study the problem of uniqueness of Ricci flow on complete noncompact manifolds. We consider the class of solutions with curvature bounded above by C/t when t > 0. In paricular, we proved uniqueness if in addition the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Man-Chun Lee

We find a local solution to the Ricci flow equation under a negative lower bound for many known curvature conditions. The flow exists for a uniform amount of time, during which the curvature stays bounded below by a controllable negative…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Yi Lai