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We announce a new proof of the uniform estimate on the curvature of solutions to the Ricci flow on a compact K\"ahler manifold $M^n$ with positive bisectional curvature. In contrast to the recent work of X. Chen and G. Tian, our proof of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Huai-Dong Cao , Bing-Long Chen , Xi-Ping Zhu

In this paper, the author discusses the eigenvalues and entropies under the harmonic-Ricci flow, which is the Ricci flow coupled with the harmonic map flow. We give an alternative proof of results for compact steady and expanding…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Yi Li

Optimal transport plays a major role in the study of manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below. Some results in this setting have been extended to super Ricci flows, revealing a unified approach to analysis on Ricci nonnegative manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Marco Flaim , Erik Hupp

A fundamental tool in the analysis of Ricci flow is a compactness result of Hamilton in the spirit of the work of Cheeger, Gromov and others. Roughly speaking it allows one to take a sequence of Ricci flows with uniformly bounded curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-18 Peter Topping

We give biLipschitz models for the Ricci flow on some 4-manifolds (minimal surfaces of general type), exhibiting a combination of expanding and static behavior.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-23 John Lott

We simplify and improve the curvature estimates in the paper: On the conditions to extend Ricci flow(II). Furthermore, we develop some volume estimates for the Ricci flow with bounded scalar curvature. These estimates can be applied to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-21 Xiuxiong Chen , Bing Wang

In this paper, we study the evolution of $L^2$ one forms under Ricci flow with bounded curvature on a non-compact Rimennian manifold. We show on such a manifold that the $L^2$ norm of a smooth one form with compact support is non-increasing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Li Ma , Yang Yang

These are detailed notes on Perelman's papers "The entropy formula for the Ricci flow and its geometric applications" and "Ricci flow with surgery on three-manifolds".

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Bruce Kleiner , John Lott

In this paper, we study $\kappa$-noncollapsed ancient solutions to the Ricci flow with nonnegative curvature operator in higher dimensions. We impose one further assumption: one of the asymptotic shrinking gradient Ricci solitons is the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Xiaolong Li , Yongjia Zhang

We consider smooth complete solutions to Ricci flow with bounded curvature on manifolds without boundary in dimension three. Assuming an open ball at time zero of radius one has curvature bounded from below by -1, then we prove estimates…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Miles Simon

We consider Ricci flow of complete Riemannian manifolds which have bounded non-negative curvature operator, non-zero asymptotic volume ratio and no boundary. We prove scale invariant estimates for these solutions. Using these estimates, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-07-31 Felix Schulze , Miles Simon

In this work, we obtain existence criteria for Chern-Ricci flows on noncompact manifolds. We generalize a result by Tossati-Wienkove on Chern-Ricci flows to noncompact manifolds and at the same time generalize a result for Kahler-Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-18 Man-Chun Lee , Luen-Fai Tam

Motivated by Perelman's Pseudo Locality Theorem for the Ricci flow, we prove that if a Riemannian manifold has Ricci curvature bounded below in a metric ball which moreover has almost maximal volume, then in a smaller ball (in a quantified…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Fabio Cavalletti , Andrea Mondino

We investigate Riemannian (non-Kahler) Ricci flow solutions that develop finite-time Type-I singularities and present evidence in favor of a conjecture that parabolic rescalings at the singularities converge to singularity models that are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-07 James Isenberg , Dan Knopf , Natasa Sesum

In this work, we prove uniqueness for complete non-compact Ricci flow with scaling invariant curvature bound. This generalizes the earlier work of Chen-Zhu, Kotschwar and covers most of the example of Ricci flows with unbounded curvature.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Man-Chun Lee

Let $(M,g)$ be a complete noncompact non-collapsing $n$-dimensional riemannian manifold, whose complex sectional curvature is bounded from below and scalar curvature is bounded from above. Then ricci flow with above as its initial data, has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-08 Li Sheng , Xiaojie Wang

An extrinsic representation of a Ricci flow on a differentiable n-manifold M is a family of submanifolds S(t), each smoothly embedded in R^{n+k}, evolving as a function of time t such that the metrics induced on the submanifolds S(t) by the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-05 Vincent Coll , Jeff Dodd , David L. Johnson

We study noncommutative Ricci flow in a finite dimensional representation of a noncommutative torus. It is shown that the flow exists and converges to the flat metric. We also consider the evolution of entropy and a definition of scalar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-10 Rocco Duvenhage

In this paper, we study the evolution of L2 p-forms under Ricci flow with bounded curvature on a complete non-compact or a compact Riemannian manifold. We show that under curvature pinching conditions on such a manifold, the L2 norm of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Li Ma , Baiyu Liu

We extend some convergence results on nonsingular compact Ricci flows in the papers \cite{Ha:1}, \cite{Se:1} and \cite{FZZ:2} to certain infinite volume noncompact cases which are "partially" nonsingular. As an application, for a finite…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Qi S Zhang