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We consider translating solitons to flows by positive powers $\alpha$ of the Gaussian curvature -- called $K^\alpha$-flows -- in Riemannian products $M\times\mathbb R.$ We prove that, when $M$ is the Euclidean space $\mathbb R^n,$ the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Ronaldo Freire de Lima

We study the geodesic flow on the normal line congruence of a minimal surface in ${\Bbb{R}}^3$ induced by the neutral K\"ahler metric on the space of oriented lines. The metric is lorentz with isolated degenerate points and the flow is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg

A geometric flow based in the Riemann-Christoffel curvature tensor that in two dimensions has some common features with the usual Ricci flow is presented. For $n$ dimensional spaces this new flow takes into account all the components of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Patricio S. Letelier

We apply an equivariant version of Perelman's Ricci flow with surgery to study smooth actions by finite groups on closed 3-manifolds. Our main result is that such actions on elliptic and hyperbolic 3-manifolds are conjugate to isometric…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-01-09 Jonathan Dinkelbach , Bernhard Leeb

The motion of an incompressible fluid in Lagrangian coordinates involves infinitely many symmetries generated by the left Lie algebra of group of volume preserving diffeomorphisms of the three dimensional domain occupied by the fluid.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hasan Gumral

We show that on smooth minimal surfaces of general type, the K\"ahler-Ricci flow starting at any initial K\"ahler metric converges in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense to a K\"ahler-Einstein orbifold surface. In particular, the diameter of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Bin Guo , Jian Song , Ben Weinkove

We show that the properties of Lagrangian mean curvature flow are a special case of a more general phenomenon, concerning couplings between geometric flows of the ambient space and of totally real submanifolds. Both flows are driven by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Jason D. Lotay , Tommaso Pacini

We investigate how to obtain various flows of K\"ahler metrics on a fixed manifold as variations of K\"ahler reductions of a metric satisfying a given static equation on a higher dimensional manifold. We identify static equations that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-12 Claudio Arezzo , Alberto Della Vedova , Gabriele La Nave

In this paper we introduce a new geometric flow --- the hyperbolic gradient flow for graphs in the $(n+1)$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. This kind of flow is new and very natural to understand the geometry of manifolds. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-09 De-Xing Kong , Kefeng Liu

In this paper we introduce a new geometric flow with rotational invariance and prove that, under this kind of flow, an arbitrary smooth closed contractible hypersurface in the Euclidean space Rn+1 (n, 1) converges to Sn in the C1-topology…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-06 De-Xing Kong , Qiang Ru

It is shown how a complete set of hydrodynamic equations describing an unsteady three-dimensional viscous flow nearby a solid body, can be reduced to a closed system of surface equations using the method of dimension reduction of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-04 Maxim Zaytsev , Vyacheslav Akkerman

In this paper, we introduce a new parabolic equation on K\"ahler manifolds. The static point of this flow is related to the existence of a lower bound of the Mabuchi energy. In this paper, we prove the flow always exists for all times for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xiuxiong Chen

The dynamics of gradient and Hamiltonian flows with particular application to flows on adjoint orbits of a Lie group and the extension of this setting to flows on a loop group are discussed. Different types of gradient flows that arise from…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-08-31 Anthony M. Bloch , Philip J. Morrison , Tudor S. Ratiu

Thurston's triangulation conjecture asserts that every hyperbolic 3-manifold admits a geometric decomposition into ideal hyperbolic tetrahedra, a result proven only for certain special 3-manifolds. This paper presents combinatorial Ricci…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Feng Ke , Ge Huabin

We study geodesics flows on curved quantum Riemannian geometries using a recent formulation in terms of bimodule connections and completely positive maps. We complete this formalism with a canonical $*$ operation on noncommutative vector…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2023-07-12 Edwin Beggs , Shahn Majid

The contribution presents a brief summary of the Gauge/Gravity approach to the study of hydrodynamic flow of the quark-gluon plasma formed in heavy-ion collisions, in a boost-invariant setting (Bjorken flow). Considering the ideal case of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 R. A. Janik , Robi Peschanski

Optical flow is a powerful tool for the study and analysis of motion in a sequence of images. In this article we study a Horn-Schunck type spatio-temporal regularization functional for image sequences that have a non-Euclidean, time varying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-02 Martin Bauer , Markus Grasmair , Clemens Kirisits

Shallow flow or thin liquid film models are used for a wide range of physical and engineering problems. Shallow flow models allow capturing the free surface of the fluid with little effort and reducing the three-dimensional problem to a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-20 Matthias Rauter , Željko Tuković

We develop a geometric formulation of fluid dynamics, valid on arbitrary Riemannian manifolds, that regards the momentum-flux and stress tensors as 1-form valued 2-forms, and their divergence as a covariant exterior derivative. We review…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-14 Andrew D. Gilbert , Jacques Vanneste

We study the geometry of a codimension-one foliation with a time-dependent Riemannian metric. The work begins with formulae concerning deformations of geometric quantities as the Riemannian metric varies along the leaves of the foliation.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-28 Vladimir Rovenski