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We prove three new monotonicity formulas for manifolds with a lower Ricci curvature bound and show that they are connected to rate of convergence to tangent cones. In fact, we show that the derivative of each of these three monotone…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-22 Tobias Holck Colding

We consider the volume-normalized Ricci flow close to compact shrinking Ricci solitons. We show that if a compact Ricci soliton $(M,g)$ is a local maximum of Perelman's shrinker entropy, any normalized Ricci flow starting close to it exists…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-29 Klaus Kroencke

This is the first of a series of papers, where we introduce a new class of estimates for the Ricci flow, and use them both to characterize solutions of the Ricci flow and to provide a notion of weak solutions to the Ricci flow in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-06 Robert Haslhofer , Aaron Naber

In this paper we propose a class of local definitions of weak lower scalar curvature bounds that is well defined for $C^0$ metrics. We show the following: that our definitions are stable under greater-than-second-order perturbation of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Paula Burkhardt-Guim

In 2011 Enders, M\"{u}ller and Topping showed that any blow up sequence of a Type I Ricci flow near a singular point converges to a non-trivial gradient Ricci soliton, leading them to conclude that for such flows all reasonable definitions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Gianmichele Di Matteo

Starting with a model conical K\"ahler metric, we prove a uniform scalar curvature bound for solutions to the conical K\"ahler-Ricci flow assuming a semi-ampleness type condition on the twisted canonical bundle. In the proof, we also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Gregory Edwards

We indicate some formulas connecting Ricci flow and the Perelman entropy functional to Fisher information, differential entropy, and the quantum potential.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Carroll

Mean curvature flow is the most natural evolution equation in extrinsic geometry, and shares many features with Hamilton's Ricci flow from intrinsic geometry. In this lecture series, I will provide an introduction to the mean curvature flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Robert Haslhofer

In Eddington gravity, the action principle involves only the symmetric parts of the connection and the Ricci tensor, with a metric that emerges proportionally to the latter. Here, we relax this symmetric character, prolong the action with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-10 Hemza Azri , Salah Nasri

A theory of gravitation is proposed, modeled after the notion of a Ricci flow. In addition to the metric an independent volume enters as a fundamental geometric structure. Einstein gravity is included as a limiting case. Despite being a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Wolfgang Graf

The Ricci flow equation of a conformally flat Riemannian metric on a closed 2-dimensional configuration space is analysed. It turns out to be equivalent to the classical Hamilton-Jacobi equation for a point particle subject to a potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-24 J. M. Isidro , J. L. G. Santander , P. Fernandez de Cordoba

With respect to any special boundary defining function, a conformally compact asymptotically hyperbolic metric has an asymptotic expansion near its conformal infinity. If this expansion is even to a certain order and satisfies one extra…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Eric Bahuaud , Rafe Mazzeo , Eric Woolgar

It is the purpose of this article to establish a technical tool to study regularity of solutions to parabolic equations on manifolds. As applications of this technique, we prove that solutions to the Ricci-DeTurck flow, the surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Yuanzhen Shao

Geometrical tools, used in Einstein's general relativity (GR), are applied to dynamo theory, in order to obtain fast dynamo action bounds to magnetic energy, from Killing symmetries in Ricci flows. Magnetic field is shown to be the shear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-05-12 Garcia de Andrade

In this paper, we prove the concavity of the Shannon entropy power for the heat equation associated with the Laplacian or the Witten Laplacian on complete Riemannian manifolds with suitable curvature-dimension condition and on compact super…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-03 S. Li , X. -D. Li

We prove that the scalar curvature of a homogeneous Ricci flow solution blows up at a forward or backward finite-time singularity.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-01 Ramiro A. Lafuente

We revisit the problem of uniqueness for the Ricci flow and give a short, direct proof, based on the consideration of a simple energy quantity, of Hamilton/Chen-Zhu's theorem on the uniqueness of complete solutions of uniformly bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-15 Brett Kotschwar

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

This is a survey of some of the recent developments on the geometric and analytic aspects of the Anomaly flow. It is a flow of $(2,2)$-forms on a $3$-fold which was originally motivated by string theory and the need to preserve the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Duong H. Phong , Sebastien Picard , Xiangwen Zhang

We show how solutions to the Ricci flow on Lorentzian manifolds, along with its generalizations, can be linked to Einstein's field equations. The approach involves deformations of the matter sector that are generated by quadratic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-18 Tommaso Morone , Roberto Tateo