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We investigate the properties of the combinatorial Ricci flow for surfaces, both forward and backward -- existence, uniqueness and singularities formation. We show that the positive results that exist for the smooth Ricci flow also hold for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-09 Emil Saucan

The Ricci flow on the 2-sphere with marked points is shown to converge in all three stable, semi-stable, and unstable cases. In the stable case, the flow was known to converge without any reparametrization, and a new proof of this fact is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-07 D. H. Phong , Jian Song , Jacob Sturm , Xiaowei Wang

We prove a comparison theorem for the isoperimetric profiles of solutions of the normalized Ricci flow on the two-sphere: If the isoperimetric profile of the initial metric is greater than that of some positively curved axisymmetric metric,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-26 Ben Andrews , Paul Bryan

The main objective of this thesis is the study of the evolution under the Ricci flow of surfaces with singularities of cone type. A second objective, emerged from the techniques we use, is the study of families of Ricci flow solitons in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Daniel Ramos

Motivated by the Hamilton's Ricci flow, we define the homogeneous flow of a parallelizable manifold and show the long time existence and uniqueness of its solutions on $[0,\infty).$ Using this flow, we outline a simple proof of the Poincare…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-01 Ercüment Ortaçgil

We show uniqueness of Ricci flows starting at a surface of uniformly negative curvature, with the assumption that the flows become complete instantaneously. Together with the more general existence result proved in [10], this settles the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-22 Gregor Giesen , Peter M. Topping

We develop a theory of Ricci flow for metrics on Courant algebroids which unifies and extends the analytic theory of various geometric flows, yielding a general tool for constructing solutions to supergravity equations. We prove short time…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Jeffrey Streets , Charles Strickland-Constable , Fridrich Valach

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

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

We complete the proof of the Generalized Smale Conjecture, apart from the case of $RP^3$, and give a new proof of Gabai's theorem for hyperbolic 3-manifolds. We use an approach based on Ricci flow through singularities, which applies…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Richard H. Bamler , Bruce Kleiner

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

A comparison theorem for the isoperimetric profile on the universal cover of surfaces evolving by normalised Ricci flow is proven. For any initial metric, a model comparison is constructed that initially lies below the profile of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Paul Bryan

We prove a comparison theorem for the compact surfaces with negative Euler characteristic via the Ricci flow.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-15 Jun Ling

In this paper we study the Ricci flow on surfaces homeomorphic to a cylinder (that is, a product of the circle with a compact interval). We prove longtime existence results, results on the asymptotic behavior of the flow, and we report on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-08 Jean Cortissoz , Alexander Murcia

We develop a stochastic target representation for Ricci flow and normalized Ricci flow on smooth, compact surfaces, analogous to Soner and Touzi's representation of mean curvature flow. We prove a verification/uniqueness theorem, and then…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-03-31 Robert W. Neel , Ionel Popescu

In this article we prove an $\epsilon$-regularity theorem for non-collapsed Ricci flows, and use this to prove new estimates for singularity models of Fano K\"ahler-Ricci flows. In the course of our proof, we find a criterion for uniform…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Harry Fluck , Max Hallgren

Identifying any conformally round metric on the $2$-sphere with a unique cross section on the standard lightcone in the $3+1$-Minkowski spacetime, we gain a new perspective on $2d$-Ricci flow on topological spheres. It turns out that in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Markus Wolff

In this paper, we study the (normalized) Ricci flow on surfaces with conical singularities. Long time existence is proved for cone angle smaller than $2\pi$. In this case, convergence results are obtained if the Euler number is nonpositive.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Hao Yin

In this work, we study and solve the normalized Ricci flow equation for circle bundles over surfaces. Moreover, we study the asymptotic behavior of the solutions and their connections to some model geometries.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Arash Bazdar , Georgios Fotopoulos

We give a short, direct proof that the full holonomy group of a solution to the Ricci flow is invariant up to isomorphism using the invariance of the reduced holonomy under the flow.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Mary Cook , Brett Kotschwar