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Curvature is a fundamental geometric characteristic of smooth spaces. In recent years different notions of curvature have been developed for combinatorial discrete objects such as graphs. However, the connections between such discrete…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Pim van der Hoorn , Gabor Lippner , Carlo Trugenberger , Dmitri Krioukov

The graphical notion of effective resistance has found wide-ranging applications in many areas of pure mathematics, applied mathematics and control theory. By the nature of its construction, effective resistance can only be computed in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-23 George Forrest Young , Luca Scardovi , Naomi Ehrich Leonard

We propose a novel entropy flow on weighted graphs, which provides a principled framework that characterizes the evolution of probability distributions over graph structures while sharing geometric intuition with discrete Ricci flow. We…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Juan Zhao , Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang , Liang Zhao

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

Motivated by the methods and results of manifold sampling based on Ricci curvature, we propose a similar approach for networks. To this end we make appeal to three types of discrete curvature, namely the graph Forman-, full Forman- and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Vladislav Barkanass , Jürgen Jost , Emil Saucan

This note is a study of nonnegativity conditions on curvature which are preserved by the Ricci flow. We focus on specific kinds of curvature conditions which we call noncoercive, these are the conditions for which nonnegative curvature and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-07 Thomas Richard , Harish Seshadri

In this paper we analyze the long-time behavior of 3 dimensional Ricci flows with surgery. Our main result is that if the surgeries are performed correctly, then only finitely many surgeries occur and after some time the curvature is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-17 Richard H. Bamler

The Ricci flow is an evolution system on metrics. For a given metric as initial data, its local existence and uniqueness on compact manifolds was first established by Hamilton \cite{Ha1}. Later on, De Turck \cite{De} gave a simplified…

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

In this paper, we consider functionals related to mean curvature flow in an ambient space which evolves by an extended Ricci flow from the perspective introduced by Lott when studying a mean curvature flow in a Ricci flow background. One of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-12 José N. V. Gomes , Matheus Hudson

We prove that a Ricci flow cannot develop a finite time singularity assuming the boundedness of a suitable space-time integral norm of the curvature tensor. Moreover, the extensibility of the flow is proved under a Ricci lower bound and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Gianmichele Di Matteo

We produce complete bounded curvature solutions to K\"ahler-Ricci flow with existence time estimates, assuming only that the initial data is a smooth \K metric uniformly equivalent to another complete bounded curvature \K metric. We obtain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Albert Chau , Man-Chun Lee

In this work, we study the short-time existence theory of Ricci-DeTurck flow starting from rough metrics which satisfy a Morrey-type integrability condition. Using the rough existence theory, we show the preservation and improvement of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Man-Chun Lee , Stephen Shang Yi Liu

We study a modified notion of Ollivier's coarse Ricci curvature on graphs introduced by Lin, Lu, and Yau in [11]. We establish a rigidity theorem for complete graphs that shows a connected finite simple graph is complete if and only if the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Vincent Bonini , Conor Carroll , Uyen Dinh , Sydney Dye , Joshua Frederick , Erin Pearse

In this paper, we show existence and uniqueness of Ricci flow whose initial condition is a compact Alexandrov surface with curvature bounded from below. This requires a weakening of the notion of initial condition which is able to deal with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-25 Thomas Richard

In this work we study properties of stability and non-stability of harmonic maps under the homogeneous Ricci flow. We provide examples where the stability (non-stability) is preserved under the Ricci flow and an example where the Ricci flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-23 Rafaela F. do Prado , Lino Grama

We design strategies in nonlinear geometric analysis to temper the effects of adversarial learning for sufficiently smooth data of numerical method-type dynamics in encoder-decoder methods, variational and deterministic, through the use of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Andrew Gracyk

Some modification of the old version.In this note we give a proof of a result which is related to Perelman's theorem in Section 10.3 of the paper "The entropy formula for the Ricci flow and its geometric applications".

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Peng Lu

In this paper, we continue to study the generalized Ricci flow. We give a criterion on steady gradient Ricci soliton on complete and noncompact Riemannian manifolds that is Ricci-flat, and then introduce a natural flow whose stable points…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Yi Li

In this paper we study the Ricci flow on compact four-manifolds with positive isotropic curvature and with no essential incompressible space form. Our purpose is two-fold. One is to give a complete proof of Hamilton's classification theorem…

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

In this note, we prove that there exists a constant $\epsilon >0$, depending only on the dimension, such that if a complete solution to the Ricci flow splits as a product at time $t=0$ and has curvature bounded by $\frac{\epsilon}{t}$, then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Mary Cook