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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

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 consider a closed manifold M with a Riemannian metric g(t) evolving in direction -2S(t) where S(t) is a symmetric two-tensor on (M,g(t)). We prove that if S satisfies a certain tensor inequality, then one can construct a forwards and a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Reto Müller

We prove a globally hyperbolic spacetime with locally Lipschitz continuous metric and timelike distributional Ricci curvature bounded from below obeys the timelike measure contraction property. The remarkable class of examples of spacetimes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Mathias Braun , Marta Sálamo Candal

We consider plane-symmetric spacetimes satisfying Einstein's field equations with positive cosmological constant, when the matter is a fluid whose pressure is equal to its mass-energy density (i.e. a so-called stiff fluid). We study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-01 Philippe G. LeFloch , Sophonie B. Tchapnda

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

We study the short-time existence and regularity of solutions to a boundary value problem for the Ricci-DeTurck equation on a manifold with boundary. Using this, we prove the short-time existence and uniqueness of the Ricci flow prescribing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-14 Panagiotis Gianniotis

We prove that a globally hyperbolic smooth spacetime endowed with a $\smash{\mathrm{C}^1}$-Lorentzian metric whose Ricci tensor is bounded from below in all timelike directions, in a distributional sense, obeys the timelike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-10 Mathias Braun , Matteo Calisti

We confirm a conjecture of Hamilton: On compact manifolds the normalized Ricci flow evolves metrics with positive curvature operators to limit metrics with constant curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Christoph Boehm , Burkhard Wilking

We use Ricci flow to obtain a local bi-Holder correspondence between Ricci limit spaces in three dimensions and smooth manifolds. This is more than a complete resolution of the three-dimensional case of the conjecture of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Miles Simon , Peter M. Topping

We study the Ricci flow of initial metrics which are C^0-perturbations of the hyperbolic metric on H^n. If the perturbation is bounded in the L^2-sense, and small enough in the C^0-sense, then we show the following: In dimensions four and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-11 Oliver C. Schnürer , Felix Schulze , Miles Simon

There are described equations for a pair comprising a Riemannian metric and a Killing field on a surface that contain as special cases the Einstein Weyl equations (in the sense of D. Calderbank) and a real version of a special case of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Daniel J. F. Fox

We consider the normalized Ricci flow evolving from an initial metric which is conformally compactifiable and asymptotically hyperbolic. We show that there is a unique evolving metric which remains in this class, and that the flow exists up…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-07 Eric Bahuaud , Eric Woolgar

Many elliptic boundary value problems exhibit an interior regularity property, which can be exploited to construct local approximation spaces that converge exponentially within function spaces satisfying this property. These spaces can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-04 S. Aziz , M. Bauer , M. Bebendorf , T. Rau

Hamilton's pinching conjecture, that three-dimensional complete non-compact manifolds with pinched Ricci curvature are flat, has recently been resolved using Ricci flow. In this paper we prove a direct analogue of that result in all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Alix Deruelle , Man-Chun Lee , Felix Schulze , Miles Simon , Peter M. Topping

We first give a precise statement on the short time existence of the Calabi flow and prove a stability result: any metric near a constant scalar curvature metric will flow to this cscK metric exponentially fast. Secondly, we prove that a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Xiuxiong Chen , Weiyong He

Ricci-flat spacetimes of signature (2,q) with q=2,3,4 are constructed which admit irreducible Killing tensors of rank-3 or rank-4. The construction relies upon the Eisenhart lift applied to Drach's two-dimensional integrable systems which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Marco Cariglia , Anton Galajinsky

We provide a short introduction to ``Lorentzian metric spaces" i.e., spacetimes defined solely in terms of the two-point Lorentzian distance. As noted in previous work, this structure is essentially unique if minimal conditions are imposed,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-23 E. Minguzzi

For each $n\ge 3$, we construct a 'pancake-like', $O(2)\times O(n-1)$-invariant ancient Ricci flow with positive curvature operator and bounded "girth", and we determine its asymptotic limits backwards in time. This solution is new even in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Theodora Bourni , Timothy Buttsworth , Ramiro Lafuente , Mat Langford

We study noncommutative Ricci flow in a finite dimensional representation of a noncommutative torus. It is shown that the flow exists and converges to the flat metric. We also consider the evolution of entropy and a definition of scalar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-10 Rocco Duvenhage