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Collapsed ancient solutions to the homogeneous Ricci flow on compact manifolds occur only on the total space of principal torus bundles. Under an algebraic assumption that guarantees flowing through diagonal metrics and a tameness…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Anusha M. Krishnan , Francesco Pediconi , Sammy Sbiti

We study solutions of high codimension mean curvature flow defined for all negative times, usually referred to as ancient solutions. We show that any compact ancient solution whose second fundamental form satisfies a certain natural…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-29 Stephen Lynch , Huy The Nguyen

In this article we prove an $\epsilon$-regularity theorem for non-collapsed Ricci flows, and use this to prove new estimates for singularity models of Fano K\"ahler-Ricci flows. In the course of our proof, we find a criterion for uniform…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Harry Fluck , Max Hallgren

Let $({\M}, g(t))$ be a K\"ahler Ricci flow with positive first Chern class. We prove a uniform isoperimetric inequality for all time. In the process we also prove a Cheng-Yau type log gradient bound for positive harmonic functions on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-11 Gang Tian , Qi S. Zhang

In this paper, we consider the anisotropic $\alpha$-Gauss curvature flow for complete noncompact convex hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space with the anisotropy determined by a smooth closed uniformly convex Wulff shape. We show that for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Shujing Pan , Yong Wei

For a Fano manifold, We consider the geometric quantization of the K\"ahler-Ricci flow and the associated entropy functional. Convergence to the original flow and entropy is established. It is also possible to formulate the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-03 Tomoyuki Hisamoto

For an ancient Ricci flow asymptotic to a compact integrable shrinker, or a Ricci flow developing a finite-time singularity modelled on the shrinker, we establish the long-time existence of a harmonic map heat flow between the Ricci flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Kyeongsu Choi , Yi Lai

In this paper, we prove that any complete shrinking gradient K\"ahler-Ricci solitons with positive orthogonal bisectional curvature must be compact. We also obtain a classification of the complete shrinking gradient K\"ahler-Ricci solitons…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Shijin Zhang

Suppose there is a constant scalar curvature metric on a compact Kahler manifold without holomorphic vector field. We prove that the Calabi flow, if it is assumed to exist for all time with bounded Ricci curvature, will converge to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-14 Weiyong He

We establish the scalar curvature and distance bounds, extending Perelman's work on the Fano K\"ahler-Ricci flow to general finite time solutions of the K\"ahler-Ricci flow. These bounds are achieved by our Li-Yau type and Harnack estimates…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Wangjian Jian , Jian Song , Gang Tian

In this paper we study the classification of ancient convex solutions to the mean curvature flow in $\R^{n+1}$. An open problem related to the classification of type II singularities is whether a convex translating solution is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-02-08 Xu-Jia Wang

By carrying out a point-wise estimate for the second fundamental form, we prove a rigidity theorem of complete noncompact ancient solutions to the mean curvature flow in codimension one. Moreover, we derive an optimal growth condition.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Qun Chen , Hongbing Qiu

We study ancient Ricci flows which admit asymptotic solitons in the sense of Perelman. We prove that the asymptotic solitons must coincide with Bamler's tangent flows at infinity. Furthermore, we show that Perelman's $\nu$-functional is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Pak-Yeung Chan , Zilu Ma , Yongjia Zhang

We prove Gaussian type bounds for the fundamental solution of the conjugate heat equation evolving under the Ricci flow. As a consequence, for dimension 4 and higher, we show that the backward limit of type I $\kappa$-solutions of the Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-04 Xiaodong Cao , Qi S. Zhang

In this work, we extend the existence theory of non-collapsed Ricci flows from point-wise curvature lower bound to Kato-type lower bound. As an application, we prove that compact three dimensional non-collapsed strong Kato limit space is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-19 Man-Chun Lee

We prove that the conical K\"ahler-Ricci flows introduced in \cite{CYW} exist for all time $t\in [0,+\infty)$. These immortal flows possess maximal regularity in the conical category. As an application, we show if the twisted first Chern…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-27 Xiuxiong Chen , Yuanqi Wang

This paper proves that there exists a non-trivial ancient solution to the Ricci flow emerging from the Taub-Bolt metric.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-09 John Hughes

In this paper, we study the collpasing K\"{a}hler-Ricci flow on Hirzebruch surfaces, which develops finite time singularities. We show that any tangent flow based at a point in the singular time slice is the K\"{a}hler-Ricci flow associated…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Jiangtao Li

We find a local solution to the Ricci flow equation under a negative lower bound for many known curvature conditions. The flow exists for a uniform amount of time, during which the curvature stays bounded below by a controllable negative…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Yi Lai

We study solutions to generalized Ricci flow on four-manifolds with a nilpotent, codimension $1$ symmetry. We show that all such flows are immortal, and satisfy type III curvature and diameter estimates. Using a new kind of monotone energy…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Steven Gindi , Jeffrey Streets