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In this paper we discuss Perelman's Lambda-functional, Perelman's Ricci shrinker entropy as well as the Ricci expander entropy on a class of manifolds with isolated conical singularities. On such manifolds, a singular Ricci de Turck flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-07 Klaus Kroencke , Boris Vertman

We study $n$-dimensional Ricci flows with non-negative Ricci curvature where the curvature is pointwise controlled by the scalar curvature and bounded by $C/t$, starting at metric cones which are Reifenberg outside the tip. We show that any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Alix Deruelle , Felix Schulze , Miles Simon

We consider compact ancient solutions to the three-dimensional Ricci flow which are noncollapsed. We prove that such a solutions is either a family of shrinking round spheres, or it has a unique asymptotic behavior as $t \to -\infty$ which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Sigurd Angenent , Simon Brendle , Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Natasa Sesum

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

A fundamental step in the analysis of singularities of Ricci flow was the discovery by Perelman of a monotonic volume quantity which detected shrinking solitons in (arXiv:math/0211159). A similar quantity was found by Feldman, Ilmanen, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Joshua Jordan

In this paper, we prove a unique continuation or ``backwards-uniqueness'' theorem for solutions to the Ricci flow. A particular consequence is that the isometry group of a solution cannot expand within the lifetime of the solution.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-29 Brett Kotschwar

It is known from work of Perelman that any finite-time singularity of the Ricci flow on a compact three-manifold is modeled on an ancient $\kappa$-solution. We prove that the every noncompact ancient $\kappa$-solution in dimension $3$ is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-21 S. Brendle

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

We prove that any singular K\"ahler--Ricci shrinker $X$ arising as a noncollapsed limit of K\"ahler--Ricci flows admits a natural structure of a locally algebraic complex-analytic variety with log terminal singularities. We then derive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Max Hallgren , Junsheng Zhang

Motivated by the long-time behavior of Ricci flows that collapse with bounded curvature, we study expanding Ricci solitons with nilpotent symmetry on vector bundles over a closed manifold. We prove that, under mild assumptions that are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Ramiro A. Lafuente , Adam Thompson

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

In this paper we study 4d gradient steady Ricci solitons, which are weak $\kappa$-solutions, and admit O(3)-symmetry. Under a weak curvature decay condition, we find precise geometric asymptotics of such solitons, which are similar to those…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Zilu Ma , Hamidreza Mahmoudian , Natasa Sesum

In each dimension $N\geq 3$ and for each real number $\lambda\geq 1$, we construct a family of complete rotationally symmetric solutions to Ricci flow on $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ which encounter a global singularity at a finite time $T$. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Haotian Wu

We establish a weak compactness theorem for the moduli space of closed Ricci flows with uniformly bounded entropy, each equipped with a natural spacetime distance, under pointed Gromov-Hausdorff convergence. Furthermore, we develop a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Hanbing Fang , Yu Li

In this paper, we study the moduli spaces of noncollapsed Ricci flow solutions with bounded energy and scalar curvature. We show a weak compactness theorem for such moduli spaces and apply it to study isoperimetric constant control,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-11 Xiuxiong Chen , Bing Wang

We give two new proofs of Perelman's theorem that shrinking breathers of Ricci flow on closed manifolds are gradient Ricci solitons, using the fact that the singularity models of type I solutions are shrinking gradient Ricci solitons and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Peng Lu , Yu Zheng

In this paper we prove a conjecture by Feldman-Ilmanen-Knopf in \cite{FIK} that the gradient shrinking soliton metric they constructed on the tautological line bundle over $\CP^1$ is the uniform limit of blow-ups of a type I Ricci flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-27 Davi Máximo

The Ricci flow is an evolution system on metrics. For a given metric as initial data, its local existence and uniqueness on compact manifolds was first established by Hamilton \cite{Ha1}. Later on, De Turck \cite{De} gave a simplified…

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

In our previous work [PSSW], we showed that the Ricci flow on S^2 whose initial metric has conical singularities \sum_{j=1}^k \beta_j[p_j] converges to a constant curvature metric with conic singularities (in the stable and semi-stable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-17 D. H. Phong , Jian Song , Jacob Sturm , Xiaowei Wang

We show that a Ricci flow in four dimensions can develop singularities modeled on the Eguchi-Hanson space. In particular, we prove that starting from a class of asymptotically cylindrical $U(2)$-invariant initial metrics on $TS^2$, a Type…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Alexander Appleton