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We show that any locally conformally flat ancient solution to the Ricci flow must be rotationally symmetric. As a by-product, we prove that any locally conformally flat Ricci soliton is a gradient soliton in the shrinking and steady cases…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Giovanni Catino , Carlo Mantegazza , Lorenzo Mazzieri

This paper defines a parabolic frequency for solutions of the heat equation on a Ricci flow and proves it's monotonicity along the flow. Frequency monotonicity is known to have many useful consequences; here it is shown to provide a simple…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-01 Julius Baldauf , Dain Kim

We consider a normalization of the Ricci flow on a closed Riemannian manifold given by the evolution equation $\partial_{t}g(t)=-2(Ric(g(t))-\frac{1}{2\tau}g(t))$ where $\tau$ is a fixed positive number. Assuming that a solution for this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Antonio G. Ache

In this paper, we study the singularities of two extended Ricci flow systems --- connection Ricci flow and Ricci harmonic flow using newly-defined curvature quantities. Specifically, we give the definition of three types of singularities…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-16 Pengshuai Shi

In this paper, we study the asymptotic geometry of a noncollapsed ancient Ricci flow with nonnegative Ricci curvature via its tangent flow at infinity -- a noncollapsed $\mathbb{F}$-limit metric soliton [Bam23,CMZ23]. We first prove some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Yuxing Deng , Ganqi Wang , Yongjia Zhang

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

We consider compact noncollapsed ancient solutions to the 3-dimensional Ricci flow that are rotationally and reflection symmetric. We prove that these solutions are either the spheres or they all have unique asymptotic behavior as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Sigurd Angenent , Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Natasa Sesum

The Ricci flow is a heat equation for metrics, which has recently been used to study the topology of closed three manifolds. In this paper we apply Ricci flow techniques to general relativity. We view a three dimensional asymptotically flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Joseph Samuel , Sutirtha Roy Chowdhury

We review different notions of synthetic Ricci flow that apply to time-dependent families of metric measure spaces and which are based on properties of the heat flow, ideas from optimal transport, and the asymptotic behaviour of volumes.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Matthias Erbar , Marco Flaim , Eric Hupp , Zhenhao Li , Timo Schultz , Karl-Theodor Sturm

We characterize the conjugate linearized Ricci flow and the associated backward heat kernel on closed three--manifolds of bounded geometry. We discuss their properties, and introduce the notion of Ricci flow conjugated constraint sets which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-14 Mauro Carfora

We introduce a new entropy functional for nonnegative solutions of the heat equation on a manifold with time-dependent Riemannian metric. Under certain integral assumptions, we show that this entropy is non-decreasing, and moreover convex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-03 Hongxin Guo , Robert Philipowski , Anton Thalmaier

In this paper we have introduced the notion of $*-$ Ricci flow and shown that $*-$ Ricci soliton which was introduced by Kakimakamis and Panagiotid in 2014, is a self similar soliton of the $*-$ Ricci flow. We have also find the deformation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Nirabhra Basu , Dipankar Debnath

We derive, under a technical assumption, the first variation formula for the eigenvalues of the Laplacian on a closed manifold evolving by the Ricci flow and give some applications.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Luca Fabrizio Di Cerbo

We provide a comparatively simple proof of the dynamical stability of Ricci flow near a linearly stable Ricci-flat ALE metric with integrable deformations. Our proof relies on the equivalence between integrability and an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Maxwell Stolarski , Alex Waldron

In this paper we analyze the behavior of the distance function under Ricci flows whose scalar curvature is uniformly bounded. We will show that on small time-intervals the distance function is $\frac12$-H\"older continuous in a uniform…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Richard H. Bamler , Qi S. Zhang

We consider a generalized Ricci flow with a given (not necessarily closed) three-form and establish the higher derivatives estimates for compact manifolds. As an application, we prove the compactness theorem for this generalized Ricci flow.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-18 Yi Li

We prove sharp lower bounds for eigenvalues of the drift Laplacian for a modified Ricci flow. The modified Ricci flow is a system of coupled equations for a metric and weighted volume that plays an important role in Ricci flow. We will also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

We give biLipschitz models for the Ricci flow on some 4-manifolds (minimal surfaces of general type), exhibiting a combination of expanding and static behavior.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-23 John Lott

We prove the existence of Ricci flow starting from a class of metrics with unbounded curvature, which are doubly-warped products over an interval with a spherical factor pinched off at an end. These provide a forward evolution from some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-25 Timothy Carson

There are described equations for a pair comprising a Riemannian metric and a Killing field on a surface that contain as special cases the Einstein Weyl equations (in the sense of D. Calderbank) and a real version of a special case of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Daniel J. F. Fox