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Motivated by the long-time behavior of Ricci flows that collapse with bounded curvature, we study expanding Ricci solitons with nilpotent symmetry on vector bundles over a closed manifold. We prove that, under mild assumptions that are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Ramiro A. Lafuente , Adam Thompson

Recently, we have studied evolution of a family of Finsler metrics along Finsler Ricci flow and proved its convergence in short time. Here, existence of solutions to the so called Hamilton Ricci flow on Finsler spaces is studied and a short…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-13 B. Bidabad , M. K. Sedaghat

We show that a rescale limit at any degenerate singularity of Ricci flow in dimension 3 is a steady gradient soliton. In particular, we give a geometric description of type I and type II singularities.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-06 Yu Ding

In this paper we consider compact, Riemannian manifolds $M_1, M_2$ each equipped with a one-parameter family of metrics $g_1(t), g_2(t)$ satisfying the Ricci flow equation. Motivated by a characterization of the super Ricci flow developed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Sajjad Lakzian , Michael Munn

We show that in dimension 4 and above, the lifespan of Ricci flows depends on the relative smallness of the Ricci curvature compared to the Riemann curvature on the initial manifold. We can generalize this lifespan estimate to the local…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-28 Fei He

In this paper, we prove a pseudolocality-type theorem for $\mathcal L$-complete noncompact Ricci flow which may not have bounded sectional curvature; with the help of it we study the uniqueness of the Ricci flow on noncompact manifolds. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Liang Cheng , Yongjia Zhang

We study singularity formation of K\"ahler-Ricci flow on a K\"ahler manifold that admits a horizontally homothetic conformal submersion into another K\"ahler manifold. We will derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the preservation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Hoan Nguyen

Ancient solutions of the Ricci flow arise naturally as models for singularity formation. There has been significant progress towards the classification of such solutions under natural geometric assumptions. Nonnegatively curved solutions in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Stephen Lynch , Andoni Royo Abrego

In this article we study the short-time existence of conformal Ricci flow on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. We also prove a local Shi's type curvature derivative estimate for conformal Ricci flow.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-12 Peng Lu , Jie Qing , Yu Zheng

In this paper, we consider Ricci flows admitting closed and smooth tangent flows in the sense of Bamler [Bam20c]. The tangent flow in question can be either a tangent flow at infinity for an ancient Ricci flow, or a tangent flow at a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Pak-Yeung Chan , Zilu Ma , Yongjia Zhang

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

In this note, we study the problem of uniqueness of Ricci flow on complete noncompact manifolds. We consider the class of solutions with curvature bounded above by C/t when t > 0. In paricular, we proved uniqueness if in addition the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Man-Chun Lee

Suppose $G$ is a compact Lie group, $H$ is a closed subgroup of $G$, and the homogeneous space $G/H$ is connected. The paper investigates the Ricci flow on a manifold $M$ diffeomorphic to $[0,1]\times G/H$. First, we prove a short-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Artem Pulemotov

In this paper we show that all conformal metrics to a pseudo-euclidean space invariant under the translation group, and all the conformal metrics product manifold also invariant by translation where F m it is Ricci flat semi-Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Tatiana Pires Bezerra Romildo Pina

In \cite{ChauMartens} the authors proved the long-time existence of Ricci flow starting from complete bounded curvature Riemannian manifolds with scale-invariant integral curvature bounded by a dimensional constant times the inverse of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Albert Chau , Adam Martens

We establish a weak compactness theorem for the moduli space of closed Ricci flows with uniformly bounded entropy, each equipped with a natural spacetime distance, under pointed Gromov-Hausdorff convergence. Furthermore, we develop a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Hanbing Fang , Yu Li

We introduce a flow of maps from a compact surface of arbitrary genus to an arbitrary Riemannian manifold which has elements in common with both the harmonic map flow and the mean curvature flow, but is more effective at finding minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Melanie Rupflin , Peter M. Topping

In this work, we obtain a short time existence result for harmonic map heat flow coupled with a smooth family of complete metrics in the domain manifold. Our results generalize short time existence results for harmonic map heat flow by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Shaochuang Huang , Luen-Fai Tam

We consider the K\"ahler-Ricci flow $(X, \omega(t))_{t \in [0,T)}$ on a compact manifold where the time of singularity, $T$, is finite. We assume the existence of a holomorphic map from the K\"ahler manifold $X$ to some analytic variety $Y$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Alexander Bednarek

The paper considers a manifold $M$ evolving under the Ricci flow and establishes a series of gradient estimates for positive solutions of the heat equation on $M$. Among other results, we prove Li-Yau-type inequalities in this context. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-04 Mihai Bailesteanu , Xiaodong Cao , Artem Pulemotov