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In this paper, we introduce a new notion of curvature on the edges of a graph that is defined in terms of effective resistances. We call this the Ricci--Foster curvature. We study the Ricci flow resulting from this curvature. We prove the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Aleyah Dawkins , Vishal Gupta , Mark Kempton , William Linz , Jeremy Quail , Harry Richman , Zachary Stier

We describe the Ricci flow on two classes of compact three-dimensional manifolds: 1. Warped products with a circle fiber over a two-dimensional base. 2. Manifolds with a free local isometric U(1) x U(1) action.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-10 John Lott , Natasa Sesum

We show uniqueness of Ricci flows starting at a surface of uniformly negative curvature, with the assumption that the flows become complete instantaneously. Together with the more general existence result proved in [10], this settles the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-22 Gregor Giesen , Peter M. Topping

I survey some of the developments in the theory of Ricci flow and its applications from the past decade. I focus mainly on the understanding of Ricci flows that are permitted to have unbounded curvature in the sense that the curvature can…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-07 Peter M. Topping

We show that the analog of Hamilton's Ricci flow in the combinatorial setting produces solutions which converge exponentially fast to Thurston's circle packing on surfaces. As a consequence, a new proof of Thurston's existence of circle…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bennett Chow , Feng Luo

We give biLipschitz models for the Ricci flow on some 4-manifolds (minimal surfaces of general type), exhibiting a combination of expanding and static behavior.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-23 John Lott

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

For an ancient Ricci flow asymptotic to a compact integrable shrinker, or a Ricci flow developing a finite-time singularity modelled on the shrinker, we establish the long-time existence of a harmonic map heat flow between the Ricci flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Kyeongsu Choi , Yi Lai

We develop a stochastic target representation for Ricci flow and normalized Ricci flow on smooth, compact surfaces, analogous to Soner and Touzi's representation of mean curvature flow. We prove a verification/uniqueness theorem, and then…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-03-31 Robert W. Neel , Ionel Popescu

A fundamental tool in the analysis of Ricci flow is a compactness result of Hamilton in the spirit of the work of Cheeger, Gromov and others. Roughly speaking it allows one to take a sequence of Ricci flows with uniformly bounded curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-18 Peter Topping

This article reports recent developments of the research on Hamilton's Ricci flow and its applications.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Huai-Dong Cao , Bennett Chow

We establish a short-time existence theory for complete Ricci flows under scaling-invariant curvature bounds, starting from rotationally symmetric metrics on $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ that are noncollapsed at infinity, without assuming bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Ming Hsiao

In this paper, we give a sufficient condition such that the Ricci flow in $R^2$ exists globally and the flow converges at $t=\infty$ to the flat metric on $R^2$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-30 Li Ma

We show the existence of a solution to the Ricci flow with a compact length space of bounded curvature, i.e., a space that has curvature bounded above and below in the sense of Alexandrov, as its initial condition. We show that this flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Diego Corro , Masoumeh Zarei , Adam Moreno

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

We analyse Ricci flow (normalised/un-normalised) of product manifolds --unwarped as well as warped, through a study of generic examples. First, we investigate such flows for the unwarped scenario with manifolds of the type $\mathbb…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-09 Sanjit Das , Kartik Prabhu , Sayan Kar

In this survey we provide an overview of our recent results concerning Ricci de Turck flow on spaces with isolated conical singularities. The crucial characteristic of the flow is that it preserves the conical singularity. Under certain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Klaus Kroencke , Boris Vertman

Giving explicit parametrizations of discrete constant Gaussian curvature surfaces of revolution that are defined from an integrable systems approach, we study Ricci flow for discrete surfaces, and see how discrete surfaces of revolution…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Naoya Suda

The famous Uniformization Theorem states that on closed Riemannian surfaces there always exists a metric of constant curvature for the Levi-Cevita connection. In this article we prove that an analogue of the uniformization theorem also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Volker Branding , Klaus Kroencke

We prove the short-time existence of Ricci flows on complete manifolds with scalar curvature bounded below uniformly, Ricci curvature bounded below by a negative quadratic function, and with almost Euclidean isoperimetric inequality holds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Fei He