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In this paper we study the Ricci flow on compact four-manifolds with positive isotropic curvature and with no essential incompressible space form. Our purpose is two-fold. One is to give a complete proof of Hamilton's classification theorem…

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

We consider the Ricci flow for simply connected nilmanifolds, which translates to a Ricci flow on the space of nilpotent metric Lie algebras. We consider the evolution of the inner product and the evolution of structure constants, as well…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-12 Tracy L. Payne

We extend the concept of singular Ricci flow by Kleiner and Lott from 3d compact manifolds to 3d complete manifolds with possibly unbounded curvature. As an application of the generalized singular Ricci flow, we show that for any 3d…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Yi Lai

In the paper, we study evolution equations of the scalar and Ricci curvatures under the Hamilton's Ricci flow on a closed manifold and on a complete noncompact manifold. In particular, we study conditions when the Ricci flow is trivial and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Vladimir Rovenski , Sergey Stepanov , Irina Tsyganok

Ricci flow on two dimensional surfaces is far simpler than in the higher dimensional cases. This presents an opportunity to obtain much more detailed and comprehensive results. We review the basic facts about this flow, including the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-25 James Isenberg , Rafe Mazzeo , Natasa Sesum

In this paper we investigate a kind of generalized Ricci flow which possesses a gradient form. We study the monotonicity of the given function under the generalized Ricci flow and prove that the related system of partial differential…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-19 Chun-lei He , Sen Hu , De-Xing Kong , Kefeng Liu

We prove a curvature pinching result for the Ricci flow on asymptotically flat manifolds: if an asymptotically flat manifold of dimension $n\geq 3$ has scale-invariant integral norm of curvature sufficiently pinched relative to the inverse…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-01 Eric Chen

The present work extends the application of a modified Ricci flow equation to an asymptotically non flat space, namely Marder's cylindrially symmetric space. It is found that the flow equation has a solution at least in a particular case.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Shubhayu Chatterjee , Narayan Banerjee

We explore the harmonic-Ricci flow---that is, Ricci flow coupled with harmonic map flow---both as it arises naturally in certain principal bundle constructions related to Ricci flow and as a geometric flow in its own right. We demonstrate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-12-18 Michael Bradford Williams

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 consider a generalized Ricci flow with a given (not necessarily closed) three-form and establish the higher derivatives estimates for compact manifolds. As an application, we prove the compactness theorem for this generalized Ricci flow.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-18 Yi Li

We prove that for any complete three-manifold with a lower Ricci curvature bound and a lower bound on the volume of balls of radius one, a solution to the Ricci flow exists for short time. Actually our proof also yields a (non-canonical)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-30 Raphael Hochard

In this paper, we establish the existence and uniqueness of Ricci flow that admits an embedded closed convex surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$ as metric initial condition. The main point is a family of smooth Ricci flows starting from smooth convex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Jiuzhou Huang , Jiawei Liu

The Ricci flow on the 2-sphere with marked points is shown to converge in all three stable, semi-stable, and unstable cases. In the stable case, the flow was known to converge without any reparametrization, and a new proof of this fact is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-07 D. H. Phong , Jian Song , Jacob Sturm , Xiaowei Wang

The main objective of this thesis is the study of the evolution under the Ricci flow of surfaces with singularities of cone type. A second objective, emerged from the techniques we use, is the study of families of Ricci flow solitons in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Daniel Ramos

We review the main aspects of Ricci flows as they arise in physics and mathematics. In field theory they describe the renormalization group equations of the target space metric of two dimensional sigma models to lowest order in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Ioannis Bakas

We consider smooth solutions (M,g(t)), 0 <= t <T, to Ricci flow on compact, connected, four dimensional manifolds without boundary. We assume that the scalar curvature is bounded uniformly, and that T is finite. In this case, we show that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-14 Miles Simon

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 paper we survey the recent developments of the Ricci flows on complete noncompact K\"{a}hler manifolds and their applications in geometry.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xi-Ping Zhu

We prove that the Ricci flow g(t) starting at any metric on the euclidean space that is invariant by a transitive nilpotent Lie group N, can be obtained by solving an ODE for a curve of nilpotent Lie brackets. By using that this ODE is the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-19 Jorge Lauret