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We introduce two new functionals on Sasaki manifolds, inspired by the work of Perelman, which are monotonic along the Sasaki-Ricci flow. We relate their gradient flow, via diffeomorphisms preserving the foliated structure of the manifold,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-08 Tristan C. Collins

This paper proposes the Ricci-flow equation from Riemannian geometry as a general geometric framework for various nonlinear reaction-diffusion systems (and related dissipative solitons) in mathematical biology. More precisely, we propose a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-05-20 Vladimir G. Ivancevic , Tijana T. Ivancevic

We define several notions of singular set for Type I Ricci flows and show that they all coincide. In order to do this, we prove that blow-ups around singular points converge to nontrivial gradient shrinking solitons, thus extending work of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Joerg Enders , Reto Müller , Peter M. Topping

In this paper, we extend the results of \cite{fang2025strong, fang2025singular} to generalized cylinders. More precisely, we establish a Lojasiewicz inequality for the pointed $\mathcal{W}$-entropy in Ricci flow under the assumption that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Hanbing Fang , Yu Li

We analyse Ricci flow (normalised/un-normalised) of product manifolds --unwarped as well as warped, through a study of generic examples. First, we investigate such flows for the unwarped scenario with manifolds of the type $\mathbb…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-09 Sanjit Das , Kartik Prabhu , Sayan Kar

We prove heat kernel bounds for the operator (1 + |x|^{\alpha})\Delta in R^N, through Nash inequalities and weighted Hardy inequalities.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-01-21 Giorgio Metafune , Chiara Spina

We develop different synthetic notions of Ricci flow in the setting of time-dependent metric measure spaces based on ideas from optimal transport. They are formulated in terms of dynamic convexity and local concavity of the entropy along…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Matthias Erbar , Zhenhao Li , Timo Schultz

In this paper we analyze the behavior of the distance function under Ricci flows whose scalar curvature is uniformly bounded. We will show that on small time-intervals the distance function is $\frac12$-H\"older continuous in a uniform…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Richard H. Bamler , Qi S. Zhang

In this article, we prove a local Sobolev inequality for complete Ricci flows. Our main result is that the local $\nu$-functional of a disk on a Ricci flow depends only on the Nash entropy based at the center of the disk, and consequently…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Pak-Yeung Chan , Zilu Ma , Yongjia Zhang

In this paper, we show that starting from a geodesic ball $\overline{B_{r_0}}(0)$ in $\mathbb{H}^n$, for $n\geq3$, with prescribed non-decreasing rotationally symmetric mean curvature and the fixed conformal class $[g_{\mathbb{S}^{n-1}}]$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Gang Li

In this work, the problem of constructing geometric flow equations that preserve Einstein field equations for the spacetime metric is addressed. After having briefly discussed the main features of Ricci flow, the on-shell flow equations for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-09 Davide De Biasio

We prove local versions of the Ricci curvature and $\nu$-entropy gap theorems for Ricci shrinkers, which respectively generalize a previous result of Munteanu-Wang and a prior result of the authors with Ma. The key point is that these local…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Pak-Yeung Chan , Yongjia Zhang

We show that a complete Ricci flow of bounded curvature which begins from a manifold with a Ricci lower bound, local entropy bound, and small local scale-invariant integral curvature control will have global point-wise curvature control at…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Pak-Yeung Chan , Eric Chen , Man-Chun Lee

In earlier work, carrying out numerical simulations of the Ricci flow of families of rotationally symmetric geometries on $S3$, we have found strong support for the contention that (at least in the rotationally symmetric case) the Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-13 David Garfinkle , James Isenberg

We study the Ricci flow on $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, with $n\geq 2$, starting at some complete bounded curvature rotationally symmetric metric $g_{0}$. We first focus on the case where $(\mathbb{R}^{n+1},g_{0})$ does not contain minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Francesco Di Giovanni

Gu and Zhu have shown that Type-II Ricci flow singularities develop from nongeneric rotationally symmetric Riemannian metrics on $S^m$, for all $m\geq 3$. In this paper, we describe and provide plausibility arguments for a detailed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Sigurd B. Angenent , James Isenberg , Dan Knopf

Ricci flow deforms the Riemannian metric proportionally to the curvature, such that the curvature evolves according to a heat diffusion process and eventually becomes constant everywhere. Ricci flow has demonstrated its great potential by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-03-31 Min Zhang , Ren Guo , Wei Zeng , Feng Luo , Shing-Tung Yau , Xianfeng Gu

In this paper we prove a compactness result for Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature and entropy. It states that given any sequence of such Ricci flows, we can pass to a subsequence that converges to a metric space which is smooth away…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-16 Richard H. Bamler

By applying the theory of group-invariant solutions we investigate the symmetries of Ricci flow and hyperbolic geometric flow both on Riemann surfaces. The warped products on $\mathcal {S}^{n+1}$ of both flows are also studied.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Xu Chao

In this paper we give an explicit bound of $\Delta_{g(t)}u(t)$ and the local curvature estimates for the Ricci-harmonic flow under the condition that the Ricci curvature is bounded along the flow. In the second part these local curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Yi Li