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We find explicit solutions of the Laplacian coflow of $G_2-$structures on seven-dimensional almost-abelian Lie groups. Moreover, we construct new examples of solitons for the Laplacian coflow which are not eigenforms of the Laplacian and we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Leonardo Bagaglini , Anna Fino

In this paper, first we consider the existence and non-existence of Einstein metrics on the topological 4-manifolds $3\mathbb{CP}^2 # k \bar{\mathbb{CP}}^2$ (for $k \in {11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18}$) by using the idea of R\u{a}sdeaconu and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-27 Rafael Torres

We give the global picture of the normalized Ricci flow on generalized flag manifolds with two or three isotropy summands. The normalized Ricci flow for these spaces descents to a parameter depending system of two or three ordinary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-25 Stavros Anastassiou , Ioannis Chrysikos

In this article, we study geometric and analytical features of complete noncompact $\rho$-Einstein solitons, which are self-similar solutions of the Ricci-Bourguignon flow. We study the spectrum of the drifted Laplacian operator for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Caio Coimbra

We survey recent progress in the study of flows of isometric $G_2$-structures on 7-dimensional manifolds, that is, flows that preserve the metric, while modifying the $G_2$-structure. In particular, heat flows of isometric $G_2$-structures…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Sergey Grigorian

We consider a modified Ricci flow equation whose stationary solutions include Einstein and Ricci soliton metrics, and we study the linear stability of those solutions relative to the flow. After deriving various criteria that imply linear…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-11 Michael Jablonski , Peter Petersen , Michael Bradford Williams

This paper is devoted to searching for Riemannian metrics on 2-surfaces whose geodesic flows admit a rational in momenta first integral with a linear numerator and denominator. The explicit examples of metrics and such integrals are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Sergei Agapov , Vladislav Shubin

I discuss certain applications of the Ricci flow in physics. I first review how it arises in the renormalization group (RG) flow of a nonlinear sigma model. I then review the concept of a Ricci soliton and recall how a soliton was used to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Woolgar

The geometric flow theory and its applications turned into one of the most intensively developing branches of modern geometry. Here, a brief introduction to Finslerian Ricci flow and their self-similar solutions known as Ricci solitons are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Behroz Bidabad , Mohammad Yar Ahmadi

We survey recent progress in the study of $G_{2}$-structure Laplacian coflows, that is, heat flows of co-closed $G_{2}$-structures. We introduce the properties of the original Laplacian coflow of $G_{2}$-structures as well as the modified…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Sergey Grigorian

In this note, we prove the existence of homogeneous gradient solitons for the G$_2$-Laplacian flow by providing the first known example of this type. This result singles out the G$_2$-Laplacian flow as the first known geometric flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Anna Fino , Alberto Raffero

Quasi-Einstein manifolds are well-studied generalizations of Einstein manifolds. This includes gradient Ricci solitons and has a natural correspondence with the warped product Einstein manifolds. A quasi-Einstein metric is said to be rigid…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Atreyee Bhattacharya , Sayoojya Prakash

In this paper we introduce and study a new kind of hyperbolic geometric flows --dissipative hyperbolic geometric flow. This kind of flow is defined by a system of quasilinear wave equations with dissipative terms. Some interesting exact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-18 Wen-Rong Dai , De-Xing Kong , Kefeng Liu

The two-loop renormalization group flow is studied via the induced bracket flow on 3D unimodular Lie groups. A number of steady solitons are found. Some of these steady solitons come from maximally symmetric metrics that are steady,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-21 David Glickenstein , Liang Wu

We introduce and study a new general flow of $\mathrm{G}_2$-structures which we call the Ricci-harmonic flow of $\mathrm{G}_2$-structures. The flow is the coupling of the Ricci flow of underlying metrics and the isometric flow of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Shubham Dwivedi

We provide the second known example of an extremally Ricci pinched closed G2-structure on a compact 7-manifold, by finding a lattice in the only unimodular solvable Lie group admitting a left-invariant G2-structure. Furthermore, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Ines Kath , Jorge Lauret

We initiate the systematic study of $G_2$-instantons with $SU(2)^2$-symmetry. As well as developing foundational theory, we give existence, non-existence and classification results for these instantons. We particularly focus on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Jason D. Lotay , Goncalo Oliveira

This article provides an attempt to extend concepts from the theory of Riemannian manifolds to piecewise linear spaces. In particular we propose an analogue of the Ricci tensor, which we give the name of an Einstein vector field. On a given…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Robert Schrader

We provide a proof that nonholonomically constrained Ricci flows of (pseudo) Riemannian metrics positively result into nonsymmetric metrics (as explicit examples, we consider flows of some physically valuable exact solutions in general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-18 Sergiu I. Vacaru

In this work, we study metrics which are both homogeneous and Ricci soliton. If there exists a transitive solvable group of isometries on a Ricci soliton, we show that it is isometric to a solvsoliton. Moreover, unless the manifold is flat,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-26 Michael Jablonski