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In this paper we survey the recent developments of the Ricci flows on complete noncompact K\"{a}hler manifolds and their applications in geometry.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xi-Ping Zhu

We consider the normalized Ricci flow $\del_t g = (\rho - R)g$ with initial condition a complete metric $g_0$ on an open surface $M$ where $M$ is conformal to a punctured compact Riemann surface and $g_0$ has ends which are asymptotic to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-11 Lizhen Ji , Rafe Mazzeo , Natasa Sesum

In 2004, Manning showed that the topological entropy of the geodesic flow of a closed surface of non-constant negative curvature is strictly decreasing along the normalized Ricci flow, and he asked if an analogous result holds in higher…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Karen Butt , Alena Erchenko , Tristan Humbert

In this survey article, we discuss some topics on self-similar solutions to the Ricci flow and the mean curvature flow. Self-similar solutions to the Ricci flow are known as Ricci solitons. In the first part of this paper we discuss a lower…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-11 Akito Futaki

On the manifold $\Met(M)$ of all Riemannian metrics on a compact manifold $M$ one can consider the natural $L^2$-metric as described first by \cite{Ebin70}. In this paper we consider variants of this metric which in general are of higher…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-21 Martin Bauer , Philipp Harms , Peter W. Michor

In the following work, an attempt to conciliate the Ricci flow conjecture and the Cobordism conjecture, stated as refinements of the Swampland distance conjecture and of the No global symmetries conjecture respectively, is presented. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-22 David Martín Velázquez , Davide De Biasio , Dieter Lust

For triangulated surfaces and any $p>1$, we introduce the combinatorial $p$-th Calabi flow which precisely equals the combinatorial Calabi flows first introduced in H. Ge's thesis when $p=2$. The difficulties for the generalizations come…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Aijin Lin , Xiaoxiao Zhang

This article grew out of the urge to realize explicit examples of solutions for the Ricci flow as families of isometrically embedded submanifolds, together with its Gromov-Hausdorff collapses. To this aim, we consider the Ricci flow of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Mauro Patrão , Lucas Seco , Llohann D. Sperança

In this paper, we prove that if the initial submanifold $M_0$ of dimension $n(\ge6)$ satisfies an optimal pinching condition, then the mean curvature flow of arbitrary codimension in hyperbolic spaces converges to a round point in finite…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Li Lei , Hongwei Xu

In this short note, we observe that the Bamler-Kleiner proof of uniqueness and stability for 3-dimensional Ricci flow through singularities generalizes to singular Ricci flows in higher dimensions that satisfy an analogous canonical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-14 Robert Haslhofer

Let $(M,g)$ be a complete, connected, non-compact Riemannian three-manifold with non-negative Ricci curvature satisfying $Ric\geq\varepsilon\,\operatorname{tr}(Ric)\,g$ for some $\varepsilon>0$. In this note, we give a new proof based on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Gerhard Huisken , Thomas Koerber

We consider the K\"ahler-Ricci flow $\frac{\partial}{\partial t}g_{i\bar{j}} = g_{i\bar{j}} - R_{i\bar{j}}$ on a compact K\"ahler manifold $M$ with $c_1(M) > 0$, of complex dimension $k$. We prove the $\epsilon$-regularity lemma for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-24 Natasa Sesum

We consider a normalization of the Ricci flow on a closed Riemannian manifold given by the evolution equation $\partial_{t}g(t)=-2(Ric(g(t))-\frac{1}{2\tau}g(t))$ where $\tau$ is a fixed positive number. Assuming that a solution for this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Antonio G. Ache

We show that the results in \cite{Ge-Jiang1} are still true in hyperbolic background geometry setting, that is, the solution to Chow-Luo's combinatorial Ricci flow can always be extended to a solution that exists for all time, furthermore,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-07-19 Huabin Ge , Wenshuai Jiang

In this paper, by limiting twisted conical K\"ahler-Ricci flows, we prove the long-time existence and uniqueness of cusp K\"ahler-Ricci flow on compact K\"ahler manifold $M$ which carries a smooth hypersurface $D$ such that the twisted…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Jiawei Liu , Xi Zhang

We prove an estimate for solutions to the linearized Ricci flow system on closed 3-manifolds. This estimate is a generalization of Hamilton's pinching is preserved estimate for the Ricci curvatures of solutions to the Ricci flow on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Greg Anderson , Bennett Chow

For homogeneous metrics on the spaces of the title it is shown that the Ricci flow can move a metric of stricly positive sectional curvature to one with some negative sectional curvature and one of positive definite Ricci tensor to one with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-16 Man-Wai Cheung , Nolan R. Wallach

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

Using quaternions, we give a concise derivation of the Ricci tensor for homogeneous spaces with topology of the 3-dimensional sphere. We derive explicit and numerical solutions for the Ricci flow PDE and discuss their properties. In the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 István Ozsváth , Engelbert Schücking , Chaney Lin

Discrete forms of the scalar, sectional and Ricci curvatures are constructed on simplicial piecewise flat triangulations of smooth manifolds, depending directly on the simplicial structure and a choice of dual tessellation. This is done by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Rory Conboye , Warner A. Miller