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In this paper we prove that given a smoothly conformally compact metric there is a short-time solution to the Ricci flow that remains smoothly conformally compact. We adapt recent results of Schn\"urer, Schulze and Simon to prove a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Eric Bahuaud

We consider the space of Kahler metrics as a Riemannian submanifold of the space of Riemannian metrics, and study the associated submanifold geometry. In particular, we show that the intrinsic and extrinsic distance functions are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-17 Brian Clarke , Yanir A. Rubinstein

In this paper we present several curvature estimates for solutions of the Ricci flow which depend on smallness of certain local integrals of the norm of the Riemann curvature tensor.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-07-17 Rugang Ye

The three-dimensional parallel spinor flow is the evolution flow defined by a parallel spinor on a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian four-manifold. We prove that, despite the fact that Lorentzian metrics admitting parallel spinors are not…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Ángel Murcia , C. S. Shahbazi

In our previous paper math.DG/0010008, we develop some new techniques in attacking the convergence problems for the K\"ahler Ricci flow. The one of main ideas is to find a set of new functionals on curvature tensors such that the Ricci flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-07 X. X. Chen , G. Tian

In this article we consider the length functional defined on the space of immersed planar curves. The $L^2(ds)$ Riemannian metric gives rise to the curve shortening flow as the gradient flow of the length functional. Motivated by the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Philip Schrader , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

In this survey article, we discuss some topics on self-similar solutions to the Ricci flow and the mean curvature flow. Self-similar solutions to the Ricci flow are known as Ricci solitons. In the first part of this paper we discuss a lower…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-11 Akito Futaki

This paper is devoted to obtain the one-dimensional group invariant solutions of the two-dimensional Ricci flow ((2D) Rf) equation. By classifying the orbits of the adjoint representation of the symmetry group on its Lie algebra, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-04 Mehdi Nadjafikhah , Mehdi Jafari

In this note, we show that the classical Wallach manifold $\mathrm{SU}(3)/\mathrm{T}^2$-admits metrics of positive intermediate Ricci curvature $(\mathrm{Ric}_d >0)$ for $d = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5$ that lose these properties under the homogeneous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Leonardo F. Cavenaghi , Lino Grama , Ricardo M. Martins

This paper proposes a theoretical framework for modeling and optimizing the bounded functions based on the Fourier series approximation and Ricci flow. Specifically, the initial manifold, $\mathcal{M}_0$ is approximated using Fourier series…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Varsha Gupta

Representational similarity analysis (RSA) is widely used to analyze the alignment between humans and neural networks; however, conclusions based on this approach can be misleading without considering the underlying representational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Nahid Torbati , Michael Gaebler , Simon M. Hofmann , Nico Scherf

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

We survey several problems concerning Riemannian manifolds with positive curvature of one form or another. We describe the PIC1 notion of positive curvature and argue that it is often the sharp notion of positive curvature to consider.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Peter M. Topping

In this paper, we construct a set of new functionals of Ricci curvature on any Kaehler manifolds which are invariant under holomorphic transfermations in Kaehler Einstein manifolds and essentially decreasing under the Kaehler Ricci flow.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xiuxiong Chen , Gang Tian

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 establish the short-time existence of the Ricci flow on surfaces with a finite number of conic points, all with cone angle between 0 and $2\pi$, where the cone angles remain fixed or change in some smooth prescribed way. For the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Rafe Mazzeo , Yanir A. Rubinstein , Natasa Sesum

The approach to nonholonomic Ricci flows and geometric evolution of regular Lagrange systems [S. Vacaru: J. Math. Phys. \textbf{49} (2008) 043504 \& Rep. Math. Phys. \textbf{63} (2009) 95] is extended to include geometric mechanics and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-25 Laurenţiu Bubuianu , Sergiu I. Vacaru

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

We generalize the circle bundle examples of ancient solutions of the Ricci flow discovered by Bakas, Kong, and Ni to a class of principal torus bundles over an arbitrary finite product of Fano K\"ahler-Einstein manifolds studied by Wang and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-06 Peng Lu , Y. K. Wang

We study a geometric flow on curves, immersed in $\mathbb{R}^3$, that have strictly positive torsion. The evolution equation is given by $$X_{t}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{\tau}} \textbf{B}$$ where $\tau$ is the torsion and $\textbf{B}$ is the unit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Matei P. Coiculescu