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We study the modified Ricci solitons as a new class of Einstein type metrics that contains both Ricci solitons and $n$-quasi-Einstein metrics. This class is closely related to the construction of the Ricci solitons that are realised as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Antonio Airton Freitas Filho

Using Seiberg-Witten theory, it is shown that any Kaehler metric of constant negative scalar curvature on a compact 4-manifold M minimizes the L^2-norm of scalar curvature among Riemannian metrics compatible with a fixed decomposition…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Claude LeBrun

In this paper, we investigate the rigidity of Q-curvature. Specifically, we consider a closed, oriented $n$-dimensional ($n\geq6$) Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ and prove the following results under the condition $\int_{M} \nabla R\cdot\nabla…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Yiyan Xu , Shihong Zhang

In this paper, we employ a nonlocal $Q$-curvature flow inspired by Gursky-Malchiodi's work \cite{gur_mal} to solve the prescribed $Q$-curvature problem on a class of closed manifolds: For $n \geq 5$, let $(M^n,g_0)$ be a smooth closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-03 Xuezhang Chen

In this short paper, we prove a Hitchin-Thorpe type inequality for closed 4-manifolds with non-positive Yamabe invariant, and admitting long time solutions of the normalized Ricci flow equation with bounded scalar curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-08 Yuguang Zhang , Zhenlei Zhang

The paper provides a different proof of the result of Brendle-Schoen on the differential sphere theorem. It is shown directly that the invariant cone of curvature operators with positive (or non-negative) complex sectional curvature is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-05 Lei Ni , Jon Wolfson

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

On a smooth closed oriented 4-manifold $M$ with a smooth action by a finite group $G$, we show that a $G$-monopole class gives the $L^2$-estimate of the Ricci curvature of a $G$-invariant Riemannian metric, and derive a topological…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-14 Chanyoung Sung

We show that there exists a universal positive constant $\varepsilon_0 > 0$ with the following property: Let $g$ be a positive Einstein metric on $S^4$. If the Yamabe constant of the conformal class $[g]$ satisfies $$ Y(S^4, [g])…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Kazuo Akutagawa , Hisaaki Endo , Harish Seshadri

In this paper, we construct coordinates at the infinity of an asymptotically flat end of a Ricci-flat manifold $(M_m, g)$ as long as the $L^{m/2}$ norm of the curvature is finite in this end. As applications, we can define a Weyl tensor at…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Bing Wang , Hao Yin

The Ricci flow on the 2-sphere with marked points is shown to converge in all three stable, semi-stable, and unstable cases. In the stable case, the flow was known to converge without any reparametrization, and a new proof of this fact is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-07 D. H. Phong , Jian Song , Jacob Sturm , Xiaowei Wang

We study the Yamabe flow on compact Riemannian manifolds of dimensions greater than two with minimal boundary. Convergence to a metric with constant scalar curvature and minimal boundary is established in dimensions up to seven, and in any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Sergio Almaraz , Liming Sun

Let $g(t)$, $t\in [0, +\infty)$, be a solution of the normalized K\"ahler-Ricci flow on a compact K\"ahler $n$-manifold $M$ with $c_{1}(M)>0$ and initial metric $g (0)\in 2\pi c_{1}(M)$. If there is a constant $C$ independent of $t$ such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-07-25 Fuquan Fang , Yuguang Zhang

Using a method introduced by R. Bamler to study the behavior of scalar curvature under continuous deformations of Riemannian metrics, we prove that if a sequence of smooth Riemannian metrics gi on a fixed compact manifold M has isotropic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-26 Thomas Richard

A closed four dimensional manifold cannot possess a non-flat Ricci soliton metric with arbitrarily small $L^2$-norm of the curvature. In this paper, we localize this fact in the case of shrinking Ricci solitons by proving an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-07 Shaosai Huang

In this article, we study the higher-order regularity of the K\"ahler-Ricci flow on compact K\"ahler manifolds with semi-ample canonical line bundle. We proved, using a parabolic analogue of Hein-Tosatti's work on collapsing Calabi-Yau…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Frederick Tsz-Ho Fong , Man-Chun Lee

We study the mean curvature flow of smooth $n$-dimensional compact submanifolds with quadratic pinching in a Riemannian manifold $\mathcal{N}^{n+m}$. Our main focus is on the case of high codimension, $m\geq 2$. We establish a codimension…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-02 Artemis A. Vogiatzi , Huy T. Nguyen

We show that the K\"ahler-Ricci flow on a manifold with positive first Chern class converges to a K\"ahler-Einstein metric assuming positive bisectional curvature and certain stability conditions.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-20 D. H. Phong , Jian Song , Jacob Sturm , Ben Weinkove

Geometry of conformal minimal two-spheres immersed in $G(2,6;\mathbb{R})$ is studied in this paper by harmonic maps. We construct a non-homogeneous constant curved minimal two-sphere in $G(2,6;\mathbb{R})$, and give a classification theorem…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Xiaoxiang Jiao , Mingyan Li , Hong Li

This paper investigates the question of which smooth compact 4-manifolds admit Riemannian metrics that minimize the L2-norm of the curvature tensor. Metrics with this property are called OPTIMAL; Einstein metrics and scalar-flat…

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