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We prove that the Ricci flow for complete metrics with bounded geometry depends continuously on initial conditions for finite time with no loss of regularity. This relies on our recent work where sectoriality for the generator of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Eric Bahuaud , Christine Guenther , James Isenberg , Rafe Mazzeo

We give a proof of Gaussian upper bound for the heat kernel coupled with the Ricci ow. Previous proofs by Lei Ni [5] use Harnack inequality and doubling volume property, also the recent proof by Zhang and Cao [6] uses Sobolev type…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-12-21 Koléhé Abdoulaye Coulibaly-Pasquier

We show that the norm of the Riemann curvature tensor of any smooth solution to the Ricci flow can be explicitly estimated in terms of its initial values on a given ball, a local uniform bound on the Ricci tensor, and the elapsed time. This…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-15 Brett Kotschwar , Ovidiu Munteanu , Jiaping Wang

We establish certain Gaussian type upper bound for the heat kernel of the conjugate heat equation associated with 3 dimensional ancient $\kappa$ solutions to the Ricci flow. As an application, using the $W$ entropy associated with the heat…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-21 Qi S. Zhang

We establish sharp upper and lower bounds of Gaussian type for the heat kernel in the metric measure space satisfying $\RCD(0,N)$ ( equivalently, $\RCD^\ast(0,N)$) condition with $N\in \mathbb{N}\setminus\{1\}$ and having maximum volume…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Huaiqian Li

Bamler-Zhang have developed geometric analysis on Ricci flow with scalar curvature bound. The aim of this paper is to extend their work to various geometric flows. We generalize some of their results to super Ricci flow whose Muller…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Keita Kunikawa , Yohei Sakurai

We prove uniform curvature estimates for homogeneous Ricci flows: For a solution defined on $[0,t]$ the norm of the curvature tensor at time $t$ is bounded by the maximum of $C(n)/t$ and $C(n) ( scal(g(t)) - scal(g(0)) )$. This is used to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Christoph Böhm , Ramiro Lafuente , Miles Simon

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 characterize the conjugate linearized Ricci flow and the associated backward heat kernel on closed three--manifolds of bounded geometry. We discuss their properties, and introduce the notion of Ricci flow conjugated constraint sets which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-14 Mauro Carfora

I survey some of the developments in the theory of Ricci flow and its applications from the past decade. I focus mainly on the understanding of Ricci flows that are permitted to have unbounded curvature in the sense that the curvature can…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-07 Peter M. Topping

In this paper we apply techniques from optimal transport to study the neckpinch examples of Angenent-Knopf which arise through the Ricci flow on $\mathbb{S}^{n+1}$. In particular, we recover their proof of 'single-point pinching' along the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-29 Sajjad Lakzian , Michael Munn

This paper attempts to construct monotonic entropy functionals for four-dimensional Lorentzian spacetime under physical boundary conditions, as an extension of Perelman's monotonic entropy functionals constructed for three-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-17 M. J. Luo

Given a completely arbitrary surface, whether or not it has bounded curvature, or even whether or not it is complete, there exists an instantaneously complete Ricci flow evolution of that surface that exists for a specific amount of time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-03 Gregor Giesen , Peter M. Topping

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

We introduce and study a new general flow of $\mathrm{G}_2$-structures which we call the Ricci-harmonic flow of $\mathrm{G}_2$-structures. The flow is the coupling of the Ricci flow of underlying metrics and the isometric flow of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Shubham Dwivedi

We discuss a natural form of Ricci--flow conjugation between two distinct general relativistic data sets given on a compact $n\geq 3$-dimensional manifold $\Sigma$. We establish the existence of the relevant entropy functionals for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-15 Mauro Carfora

We prove the existence of Ricci flow starting from a class of metrics with unbounded curvature, which are doubly-warped products over an interval with a spherical factor pinched off at an end. These provide a forward evolution from some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-25 Timothy Carson

In this article, we prove a general and rather flexible upper bound for the heat kernel of a weighted heat operator on a closed manifold evolving by an intrinsic geometric flow. The proof is based on logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Reto Buzano , Louis Yudowitz

The metric flow is introduced and extensively studied by Bamler [Bam20b, Bam20c], especially as an $\mathbb{F}$-limit of a sequence of smooth Ricci flows with uniformly bounded Nash entropy, in which case each regular point on the limit is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Pak-Yeung Chan , Zilu Ma , Yongjia Zhang

In this paper we introduce a synthetic notion of Riemannian Ricci bounds from below for metric measure spaces (X,d,m) which is stable under measured Gromov-Hausdorff convergence and rules out Finsler geometries. It can be given in terms of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Luigi Ambrosio , Nicola Gigli , Giuseppe Savaré