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Ricci flow spacetimes were introduced by Kleiner & Lott as a way to describe Ricci flow through singularities, and have since been used elsewhere in the literature, prompting the question of their rigidity. In $(2+1)$-dimensions, we show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Luke Thomas Peachey

In this paper, we first show that a complete shrinking breather with Ricci curvature bounded from below must be a shrinking gradient Ricci soliton. This result has several applications. First, we can classify all complete $3$-dimensional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Liang Cheng , Yongjia Zhang

We consider compact noncollapsed ancient solutions to the 3-dimensional Ricci flow that are rotationally and reflection symmetric. We prove that these solutions are either the spheres or they all have unique asymptotic behavior as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Sigurd Angenent , Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Natasa Sesum

In this paper, we study the singular set $\mathcal{S}$ of a noncollapsed Ricci flow limit space, arising as the pointed Gromov--Hausdorff limit of a sequence of closed Ricci flows with uniformly bounded entropy. The singular set…

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

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

Ricci solitons are natural generalizations of Einstein metrics. They are also special solutions to Hamilton's Ricci flow and play important roles in the singularity study of the Ricci flow. In this paper, we survey some of the recent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Huai-Dong Cao

In this article, we shall investigate the relationship between the existence or non-existence of non-singular solutions to the normalized Ricci flow and smooth structures on closed 4-manifolds, where non-singular solutions to the normalized…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-07-15 Masashi Ishida

In this paper we prove classification results for gradient shrinking Ricci solitons under two invariant conditions, namely nonnegative orthogonal bisectional curvature and weakly PIC1, without any curvature bound. New results on ancient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-08 Xiaolong Li , Lei Ni

Huisken studied asymptotic behavior of a mean curvature flow in a Euclidean space when it develops a singularity of type I, and proved that its rescaled flow converges to a self-shrinker in the Euclidean space. In this paper, we generalize…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Hikaru Yamamoto

Haslhofer and M\"uller proved a compactness Theorem for four-dimensional shrinking gradient Ricci solitons, with the only assumption being that the entropy is uniformly bounded from below. However, the limit in their result could possibly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Yongjia Zhang

We study the Ricci flow on $\mathbb{R}^{4}$ starting at an SU(2)-cohomogeneity 1 metric $g_{0}$ whose restriction to any hypersphere is a Berger metric. We prove that if $g_{0}$ has no necks and is bounded by a cylinder, then the solution…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Francesco Di Giovanni

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

Ancient solutions arise in the study of Ricci flow singularities. Motivated by the work of Fateev on 3-dimensional ancient solutions we construct high dimensional ancient solutions to Ricci flow on spheres and complex projective spaces as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-14 Ioannis Bakas , Shengli Kong , Lei Ni

We prove that the restricted holonomy group of a complete smooth solution to the Ricci flow of uniformly bounded curvature cannot spontaneously contract in finite time; it follows, then, from an earlier result of Hamilton that the holonomy…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-19 Brett L. Kotschwar

Comparing and recognizing metrics can be extraordinarily difficult because of the group of diffeomorphisms. Two metrics, that could even be the same, could look completely different in different coordinates. This is the gauge problem. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

In this paper we investigate the behavior of three-dimensional homogeneous solutions of the cross curvature flow using Riemannian groupoids. The Riemannian groupoid technique, introduced by John Lott, allows us to investigate the long term…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-22 David Glickenstein

We prove that the four-dimensional blowdown shrinking Ricci soliton constructed by Feldman-Ilmanen-Knopf is strictly linearly stable in the sense of Cao-Hamilton-Ilmanen. This provides the first known example of a non-cylindrical linearly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Keaton Naff , Tristan Ozuch

In this paper we study the behavior of the scalar curvature at infinity on complete noncompact steady gradient Ricci solitons. In dimension four, we assume that the canonical Ricci flow induced by the soliton is a weak $\kappa$-solution and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Aprameya Girish Hebbar , Natasa Sesum

In this short note, we prove that the only simply connected noncompact three-dimensional Type I $\kappa$-solution to the Ricci flow is the shrinking cylinder. This work can be regarded as a generalization of Cao and Chow, and a complement…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Yongjia Zhang

In this paper we prove that there exists a compact perturbation of the Ricci flat Taub-Bolt metric that evolves under the Ricci flow into a finite time singularity modelled on the shrinking solition FIK [5]. Moreover, this perturbation can…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-30 John Hughes