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In this article, we establish a monotonicity formula of Hamilton type entropy along Ricci flow on compact surfaces with boundary. We also study the relation between our entropy functional and the $\mathcal{W}$-functional of Perelman type.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Keita Kunikawa , Yohei Sakurai

This paper studies the normalized Ricci flow on surfaces with conical singularities. It's proved that the normalized Ricci flow has a solution for a short time for initial metrics with conical singularities. Moreover, the solution makes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Hao Yin

In this paper, we define a reduced distance function based at a point at the singular time $T<\infty$ of a Ricci flow. We also show the monotonicity of the corresponding reduced volume based at time T, with equality iff the Ricci flow is a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-11-06 Joerg Enders

These are detailed notes on Perelman's papers "The entropy formula for the Ricci flow and its geometric applications" and "Ricci flow with surgery on three-manifolds".

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Bruce Kleiner , John Lott

We study the behavior of the normalized Ricci flow of invariant Riemannian homogeneous metrics at infinity for generalized Wallach spaces, generalized flag manifolds with four isotropy summands and second Betti number equal to one, and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Marina Statha

The second author and H. Yin have developed a Ricci flow existence theory that gives a complete Ricci flow starting with a surface equipped with a conformal structure and a nonatomic Radon measure as a volume measure. This led to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Luke T. Peachey , Peter M. Topping

We study Ricci flows on $R^n$, $n\ge 3$, that evolve from asymptotically flat initial data. Under mild conditions on the initial data, we show that the flow exists and remains asymptotically flat for an interval of time. The mass is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-09 T. Oliynyk , E. Woolgar

In this paper, we study the class of Finsler metrics, namely (\alpha, \beta)- metrics, which satisfies the un-normal or normal Ricci flow equation.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-02 A. Tayebi , E. Peyghan , B. Najafi

Sets related to positively curved invariant Riemannian metrics on generalized Wallach spaces are considered. The problem arises in studying of the evolution of such metrics under the normalized Ricci flow equation. For Riemannian metrics of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Nurlan Abiev

Metric measure spaces with synthetic Ricci bounds have attracted great interest in recent years, accompanied by spectacular breakthroughs and deep new insights. In this survey, I will provide a brief introduction to the concept of lower…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Karl-Theodor Sturm

Expository observation on the $\mu$-invariant of singularity models for Ricci Flow.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-19 Bennett Chow

We prove a pseudolocality type theorem for compact Ricci Flow under local integral bounds of curvature. The main tool is Local Ricci Flow introduced by Deane Yang in [4] and Pseudolocality Theorem of Perelman in [3]. We also study L^p…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-09 Yuanqi Wang

In this paper we study a boundary value problem for the Ricci flow in the two dimensional ball endowed with a rotationally symmetric metric. We show short and long time existence results. We construct families of metrics for which the flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean Cortissoz

By means of a Kaluza-Klein type argument we show that the Perelman's F-functional is the Einstein-Hilbert action in a space with extra ``phantom'' dimensions. In this way, we try to interpret some remarks of Perelman in the introduction and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-05-31 Marco Caldarelli , Giovanni Catino , Zindine Djadli , Annibale Magni , Carlo Mantegazza

In this paper, we consider functionals related to mean curvature flow in an ambient space which evolves by an extended Ricci flow from the perspective introduced by Lott when studying a mean curvature flow in a Ricci flow background. One of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-12 José N. V. Gomes , Matheus Hudson

This is the first of a series of papers on the long-time behavior of 3 dimensional Ricci flows with surgery. In this paper we first fix a notion of Ricci flows with surgery, which will be used in this and the following three papers. Then we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Richard H. Bamler

We consider the Kaehler-Ricci flow on complete finite-volume metrics that live on the complement of a divisor in a compact Kaehler manifold X. Assuming certain spatial asymptotics on the initial metric, we compute the singularity time in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-19 John Lott , Zhou Zhang

In this note, we want to establish several formulas about functionals along harmonic Ricci flow on surface with boundary

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Xiang-Zhi Cao

In this paper we introduce the log entropy functional and establish its monotonicity along the Ricci flow. One consequence of it is the monotonicity of the logarithmic Sobolev constant along the Ricci flow.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Rugang Ye

We investigate the conditions under which pseudo-Riemannian inner products induce pseudo-Riemannian algebraic Ricci solitons on four-dimensional Lie algebras. By analyzing the algebraic Ricci soliton equation for each four-dimensional Lie…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Youssef Ayad