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Dilation surfaces are geometric surfaces modelled after the complex plane whose structure group is generated by the groups of translations and dilations. For any dilation surface, for any direction $\theta$ in $S^1$, there exists a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-01-03 Anna Sophie Schmidhuber

In this paper we consider three dimensional upper half space $\mathbb{H}^3 $ equipped with various Kropina metrics obtained by deformation of hyperbolic metric of $\mathbb{H}^3$ through $1$-forms and obtain a partial differential equation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Ashok Kumar , Ranadip Gangopadhyay , Bankteshwar Tiwari , Hemangi Madhusudan Shah

We survey some recent work using Ricci flow to create a class of local definitions of weak lower scalar curvature bounds that is well defined for $C^0$ metrics. We discuss several properties of these definitions and explain some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Paula Burkhardt-Guim

Optimal-order uniform-in-time $H^1$-norm error estimates are given for semi- and full discretizations of mean curvature flow of surfaces in arbitrarily high codimension. The proposed and studied numerical method is based on a parabolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Tim Binz , Balázs Kovács

In this paper we study a boundary value problem for the Ricci flow in the two dimensional ball endowed with a rotationally symmetric metric. We show short and long time existence results. We construct families of metrics for which the flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean Cortissoz

This paper studies minimal surface entropy (the exponential asymptotic growth of the number of minimal surfaces up to a given value of area) for negatively curved metrics on hyperbolic $3$-manifolds of finite volume, particularly its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Ruojing Jiang , Franco Vargas Pallete

In this note we study conformal Ricci flow introduced by Arthur Fischer. We use DeTurck's trick to rewrite conformal Ricci flow as a strong parabolic-elliptic partial differential equations. Then we prove short time existences for conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-27 Peng Lu , Jie Qing , Yu Zheng

Topology of the Generic Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems on the Riemann Surfaces given by the real part of the generic holomorphic 1-forms, is studied. Our approach is based on the notion of Transversal Canonical Basis of Cycles (TCB). This…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. P. Novikov

Ricci flow on two dimensional surfaces is far simpler than in the higher dimensional cases. This presents an opportunity to obtain much more detailed and comprehensive results. We review the basic facts about this flow, including the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-25 James Isenberg , Rafe Mazzeo , Natasa Sesum

Many turbulent flows encountered in nature -- seas, oceans and rivers -- are bounded by a deformable free surface. A question that remained to be fully explored is to what extent the underlying turbulent flow field can be revealed solely by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-27 Amélie Ferran , Ali Semati , Anaïs Rouaud , R. Jason Hearst , Simen Å Ellingsen

We establish a connection between two previously unrelated topics: a particular discrete version of conformal geometry for triangulated surfaces, and the geometry of ideal polyhedra in hyperbolic three-space. Two triangulated surfaces are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Alexander Bobenko , Ulrich Pinkall , Boris Springborn

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 investigate the existence, convergence and uniqueness of modified general curvature flow of convex hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space with a prescribed asymptotic boundary.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-23 Ling Xiao

A flow of metrics, $g_t$, on a manifold is a solution of a differential equation $\dt g = S(g)$, where a geometric functional $S(g)$ is a symmetric $(0,2)$-tensor usually related to some kind of curvature. The mixed sectional curvature of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-28 Vladimir Rovenski , Vladimir Sharafutdinov

We define regularity scales to study the behavior of the Calabi flow. Based on estimates of the regularity scales, we obtain convergence theorems of the Calabi flow on extremal Kahler surfaces, under the assumption of global existence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Haozhao Li , Bing Wang , Kai Zheng

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 classify and expose all the gradient Ricci solitons on complete surfaces, open or closed, with curvature bounded below, and possibly with a discrete set of cone-like singular points that arise naturally. We give a precise qualitative…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-24 Daniel Ramos

Dziuk's surface finite element method for mean curvature flow has had significant impact on the development of parametric and evolving surface finite element methods for surface evolution equations and curvature flows. However, Dziuk's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Buyang Li

In this paper, we investigate the prescribed curvature problem associated with a special Lin-Lu-Yau curvature on finite graphs of girth at least 6. We define the corresponding Calabi flow for this curvature type, and establish an equivalent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Yi Li , Jie Wang , Pingsan Yuan , Chao Zheng

Hamilton's Ricci flow (RF) equations were recently expressed in terms of a sparsely-coupled system of autonomous first-order nonlinear differential equations for the edge lengths of a d-dimensional piecewise linear (PL) simplicial geometry.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Paul M. Alsing , Warner A. Miller , Shing-Tung Yau