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We establish the short-time existence of the Ricci flow on surfaces with a finite number of conic points, all with cone angle between 0 and $2\pi$, where the cone angles remain fixed or change in some smooth prescribed way. For the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Rafe Mazzeo , Yanir A. Rubinstein , Natasa Sesum

B List has recently studied a geometric flow whose fixed points correspond to static Ricci flat spacetimes. It is now known that this flow is in fact Ricci flow modulo pullback by a certain diffeomorphism. We use this observation to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-20 M M Akbar , E Woolgar

In this paper we study the evolution of almost non-negatively curved (possibly singular) three dimensional metric spaces by Ricci flow. The non-negatively curved metric spaces which we consider arise as limits of smooth Riemannian manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Miles Simon

We show that any non-collapsed finite time singularity of the Ricci flow on a compact K\"ahler surface is of Type I. Combined with a previous result of the first author, Cifarelli, and Deruelle, it follows that any such singularity is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Ronan J. Conlon , Max Hallgren , Zilu Ma

This paper investigates the question of stability for a class of Ricci flows which start at possibly non-smooth metric spaces. We show that if the initial metric space is Reifenberg and locally bi-Lipschitz to Euclidean space, then two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Alix Deruelle , Felix Schulze , Miles Simon

In this work, we prove uniqueness for complete non-compact Ricci flow with scaling invariant curvature bound. This generalizes the earlier work of Chen-Zhu, Kotschwar and covers most of the example of Ricci flows with unbounded curvature.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Man-Chun Lee

We find exact solutions describing Ricci flows of four dimensional pp-waves nonlinearly deformed by two/three dimensional solitons. Such solutions are parametrized by five dimensional metrics with generic off-diagonal terms and connections…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergiu I. Vacaru

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

We construct examples of spherical space forms $(S^3/\Gamma,g)$ with positive scalar curvature and containing no stable embedded minimal surfaces, such that the following happens along the Ricci flow starting at $(S^3/\Gamma,g)$: a stable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Antoine Song

In earlier work, we derived formal matched asymptotic profiles for families of Ricci flow solutions developing Type-II degenerate neckpinches. In the present work, we prove that there do exist Ricci flow solutions that develop singularities…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Sigurd B. Angenent , James Isenberg , Dan Knopf

Does three-dimensional incompressible Euler flow with smooth initial conditions develop a singularity with infinite vorticity after a finite time? This blowup problem is still open. After briefly reviewing what is known and pointing out…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Frisch , T. Matsumoto , J. Bec

We show that the twisted K\"ahler-Ricci flow on a complex manifold X converges to a flow of moving free boundaries, in a certain scaling limit. This leads to a new phenomenon of singularity formation and topology change which can be seen as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-13 Robert J. Berman , Chinh H. Lu

We establish geometric regularity for Type I blow-up limits of the K\"ahler-Ricci flow based at any sequence of Ricci vertices. As a consequence, the limiting flow is continuous in time in both Gromov-Hausdorff and Gromov-$W_1$ distance. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Max Hallgren , Wangjian Jian , Jian Song , Gang Tian

We demonstrate that any four-dimensional shrinking Ricci soliton $(\mathcal B \times {\mathbb S^2}, g)$, where $\mathcal B$ is any two-dimensional complete noncompact surface and $g$ is a warped product metric over the base $\mathcal B$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-13 James Isenberg , Dan Knopf , Zilu Ma , Natasa Sesum

We consider the K\"ahler-Ricci flow $(X, \omega(t))_{t \in [0,T)}$ on a compact manifold where the time of singularity, $T$, is finite. We assume the existence of a holomorphic map from the K\"ahler manifold $X$ to some analytic variety $Y$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Alexander Bednarek

We study the uniqueness problem for the K\"ahler-Ricci flow with a conical initial condition. Given a complete gradient expanding K\"ahler-Ricci soliton on a non compact manifold with quadratic curvature decay, including its derivatives, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Longteng Chen

In a singular Type I Ricci flow, we consider a stratification of the set where there is curvature blow-up, according to the number of the Euclidean factors split by the tangent flows. We then show that the strata are characterized roughly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-07 Panagiotis Gianniotis

We prove that a Ricci flow cannot develop a finite time singularity assuming the boundedness of a suitable space-time integral norm of the curvature tensor. Moreover, the extensibility of the flow is proved under a Ricci lower bound and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Gianmichele Di Matteo

Ancient solutions of the Ricci flow arise naturally as models for singularity formation. There has been significant progress towards the classification of such solutions under natural geometric assumptions. Nonnegatively curved solutions in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Stephen Lynch , Andoni Royo Abrego

In this announcement, we exhibit the second variation of Perelman's $\lambda$ and $\nu$ functionals for the Ricci flow, and investigate the linear stability of examples. We also define the "central density" of a shrinking Ricci soliton and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Huai-Dong Cao , Richard S. Hamilton , Tom Ilmanen