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We introduce singular Ricci flows, which are Ricci flow spacetimes subject to certain asymptotic conditions. We consider the behavior of Ricci flow with surgery starting from a fixed initial compact Riemannian 3-manifold, as the surgery…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Bruce Kleiner , John Lott

In this paper, we study the singularities of two extended Ricci flow systems --- connection Ricci flow and Ricci harmonic flow using newly-defined curvature quantities. Specifically, we give the definition of three types of singularities…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-16 Pengshuai Shi

In this paper we prove a compactness result for Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature and entropy. It states that given any sequence of such Ricci flows, we can pass to a subsequence that converges to a metric space which is smooth away…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-16 Richard H. Bamler

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

We present a new relation between the short time behavior of the heat flow, the geometry of optimal transport and the Ricci flow. We also show how this relation can be used to define an evolution of metrics on non-smooth metric measure…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-30 Nicola Gigli , Carlo Mantegazza

Ricci curvature and its associated flow offer powerful geometric methods for analyzing complex networks. While existing research heavily focuses on applications for undirected graphs such as community detection and core extraction, there…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Juan Zhao , Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang , Liang Zhao

We construct smooth solutions to Ricci flow starting from a class of singular metrics and give asymptotics for the forward evolution. The singular metrics heal with a set of points (of codimension at least three) coming out of the singular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Timothy Carson

We investigate a new geometric flow which consists of a coupled system of the Ricci flow on a closed manifold M with the harmonic map flow of a map phi from M to some closed target manifold N with a (possibly time-dependent) positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Reto Müller

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

We develop a theory of Ricci flow for metrics on Courant algebroids which unifies and extends the analytic theory of various geometric flows, yielding a general tool for constructing solutions to supergravity equations. We prove short time…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Jeffrey Streets , Charles Strickland-Constable , Fridrich Valach

We present two characterizations of smooth compact Ricci flow solutions solely in terms of metrics and measures (one of them only works under positive scalar curvature along the flow); thus, provide weak formulations that are generalized to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Sajjad Lakzian

We show that the set of awesome homogeneous metrics on non-compact manifolds is Ricci flow invariant. Moreover, if the universal cover of such awesome homogeneous space is not contractible the Ricci flow has finite extinction time,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Roberto Araujo

We investigate the properties of the combinatorial Ricci flow for surfaces, both forward and backward -- existence, uniqueness and singularities formation. We show that the positive results that exist for the smooth Ricci flow also hold for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-09 Emil Saucan

In this paper, we consider Ricci flows admitting closed and smooth tangent flows in the sense of Bamler [Bam20c]. The tangent flow in question can be either a tangent flow at infinity for an ancient Ricci flow, or a tangent flow at a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Pak-Yeung Chan , Zilu Ma , Yongjia Zhang

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

Optimal transport plays a major role in the study of manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below. Some results in this setting have been extended to super Ricci flows, revealing a unified approach to analysis on Ricci nonnegative manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Marco Flaim , Erik Hupp

In this paper, we investigate the behavior of the normalized Ricci flow on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. We show that the normalized Ricci flow exists globally and converges to an Einstein metric when starting from a non-degenerate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-03 Jie Qing , Yuguang Shi , Jie Wu

In this paper, we study the Ricci flow on a closed manifold and finite time interval $[0,T)~(T < \infty)$ on which certain integral curvature energies are finite. We prove that in dimension four, such flow converges to a smooth Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Shota Hamanaka

We introduce notions of dynamic gradient flows on time-dependent metric spaces as well as on time-dependent Hilbert spaces. We prove existence of solutions for a class of time dependent energy functionals in both settings. In particular we…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Eva Kopfer

In this paper, we extend the theory of Ricci flows satisfying a Type-I scalar curvature condition at a finite-time singularity. In [Bam16], Bamler showed that a Type-I rescaling procedure will produce a singular shrinking gradient Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Max Hallgren