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We extend the concept of singular Ricci flow by Kleiner and Lott from 3d compact manifolds to 3d complete manifolds with possibly unbounded curvature. As an application of the generalized singular Ricci flow, we show that for any 3d…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Yi Lai

We study the long time behaviour of Ricci flow with bubbling-off on a possibly noncompact $3$-manifold of finite volume whose universal cover has bounded geometry. As an application, we give a Ricci flow proof of Thurston's hyperbolisation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-22 Laurent Bessières , Gérard Besson , Sylvain Maillot

Since the fundamental work of Chow-Luo \cite{CL03}, Ge \cite{Ge12,Ge17} et al., the combinatorial curvature flow methods became a basic technique in the study of circle pattern theory. In this paper, we investigate the combinatorial Ricci…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Chang Li , Yangxiang Lu , Hao Yu

This paper is concerned with properties of maximal solutions of the Ricci and cross curvature flows on locally homogeneous three-manifolds of type SL(2,R). We prove that, generically, a maximal solution originates at a sub-Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-01-11 Xiaodong Cao , John Guckenheimer , Laurent Saloff-Coste

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

We show that an orientable 3-dimensional manifold M admits a complete riemannian metric of bounded geometry and uniformly pos- itive scalar curvature if and only if there exists a finite collection F of spherical space-forms such that M is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Laurent Bessières , Gérard Besson , Sylvain Maillot

For triangulated surfaces, we introduce the combinatorial Calabi flow which is an analogue of smooth Calabi flow. We prove that the solution of combinatorial Calabi flow exists for all time. Moreover, the solution converges if and only if…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-20 Huabin Ge

We prove that for any complete three-manifold with a lower Ricci curvature bound and a lower bound on the volume of balls of radius one, a solution to the Ricci flow exists for short time. Actually our proof also yields a (non-canonical)…

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In this paper we study the behavior of the Ricci flow at infinity for the full flag manifold $SU(3)/T$ using techniques of the qualitative theory of differential equations, in special the Poincar\'e Compactification and Lyapunov exponents.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-31 Ricardo Miranda Martins , Lino Grama

We present a synthetic notion of scalar curvature (and its integral) for Riemannian manifolds and metric measure spaces, defined in terms of the initial slope of a Gaussian (double) integral. We explicitly calculate the integral scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Marco Flaim , Erik Hupp , Karl-Theodor Sturm

A fundamental way to study 3-manifolds is through the geometric lens, one of the most prominent geometries being the hyperbolic one. We focus on the computation of a complete hyperbolic structure on a connected orientable hyperbolic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Clément Maria , Owen Rouillé

We prove a curvature pinching result for the Ricci flow on asymptotically flat manifolds: if an asymptotically flat manifold of dimension $n\geq 3$ has scale-invariant integral norm of curvature sufficiently pinched relative to the inverse…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-01 Eric Chen

We introduce a geometric evolution equation for 3-manifolds with sectional curvature of one sign which is in some sense dual to the Ricci flow. On a closed 3-manifold with negative sectional curvature, we establish short time existence and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bennett Chow , Richard Hamilton

In this paper, we study 4-dimensional complete non-compact manifold with its curvature operator in $\mathfrak{C}_{\eta,\mu}$ via Ricci flow. We obtain topological and geometric gap theorems assuming such manifold has maximal volume growth.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Hongting Ding , Shaochuang Huang , Zhuo Peng

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 this paper, we introduce a new combinatorial curvature on triangulated surfaces with inversive distance circle packing metrics. Then we prove that this combinatorial curvature has global rigidity. To study the Yamabe problem of the new…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-30 Huabin Ge , Xu Xu

Bounded-type 3-manifolds arise as combinatorially bounded gluings of irreducible 3-manifolds chosen from a finite list. We prove effective hyperbolization and effective rigidity for a broad class of 3-manifolds of bounded type and large…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Jeffrey Brock , Yair Minsky , Hossein Namazi , Juan Souto

We decribe and announce some results (joint with G. Besson, L. Bessieres, M. Boileau and J.Porti) about the geometry and topology of 3-manifolds. Most of the article is primarily intended as an introduction for nonexperts to geometrization…

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Discrete conformal structure on polyhedral surfaces is a discrete analogue of the smooth conformal structure on surfaces that assigns discrete metrics by scalar functions defined on vertices. In this paper, we introduce combinatorial…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-11 Xu Xu , Chao Zheng

In this paper, we study a natural discretization of the smooth Gaussian curvature on surfaces. A discrete uniformization theorem is established for this discrete Gaussian curvature. We further investigate the prescribing combinatorial…

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