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We consider smooth, not necessarily complete, Ricci flows, $(M,g(t))_{t\in (0,T)}$ with ${\mathrm{Ric}}(g(t)) \geq -1$ and $| {\mathrm{Rm}} (g(t))| \leq c/t$ for all $t\in (0 ,T)$ coming out of metric spaces $(M,d_0)$ in the sense that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Alix Deruelle , Felix Schulze , Miles Simon

The geometric flow theory and its applications turned into one of the most intensively developing branches of modern geometry. Here, a brief introduction to Finslerian Ricci flow and their self-similar solutions known as Ricci solitons are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Behroz Bidabad , Mohammad Yar Ahmadi

We compare two standard approaches to defining lower Ricci curvature bounds for Riemannian metrics of regularity below $C^2$. These are, on the one hand, the synthetic definition via weak displacement convexity of entropy functionals in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Michael Kunzinger , Michael Oberguggenberger , James A. Vickers

If we want to deform a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary using Ricci flow, we first need to decide on appropriate boundary conditions. We would like these conditions to reflect the geometric nature of the flow and allow for a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Rasmus Jouttijärvi

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 previous work we established the existence of a Ricci flow starting with a Riemann surface coupled with a nonatomic Radon measure as a conformal factor. In this paper we prove uniqueness. Combining these two works yields a canonical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Peter M. Topping , Hao Yin

We have found that the relation between the flow through campylotic (generically curved) media, consisting of randomly located curvature perturbations, and the average Ricci scalar of the system exhibits two distinct functional expressions…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-08-04 M. Mendoza , S. Succi , H. J. Herrmann

We introduce a flow of Riemannian metrics and positive volume forms over compact oriented manifolds whose formal limit is a shrinking Ricci soliton. The case of a fixed volume form has been considered in our previous work. We still call…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Nefton Pali

In this paper we present several curvature estimates for solutions of the Ricci flow which depend on smallness of certain local integrals of the norm of the Riemann curvature tensor.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-07-17 Rugang Ye

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

We derive a family of weighted scalar curvature monotonicity formulas for generalized Ricci flow, involving an auxiliary dilaton field evolving by a certain reaction-diffusion equation motivated by renormalization group flow. These scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-28 Jeffrey Streets

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

We consider smooth complete solutions to Ricci flow with bounded curvature on manifolds without boundary in dimension three. Assuming an open ball at time zero of radius one has curvature bounded from below by -1, then we prove estimates…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Miles Simon

In this paper we prove local existence of a Ricci de Turck flow starting at a space with incomplete edge singularities and flowing for a short time within a class of incomplete edge manifolds. We derive regularity properties for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Boris Vertman

We analyse second order (in Riemann curvature) geometric flows (un-normalised) on locally homogeneous three manifolds and look for specific features through the solutions (analytic whereever possible, otherwise numerical) of the evolution…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Sanjit Das , Kartik Prabhu , Sayan Kar

The Ricci flow was introduced by Hamilton and gained its importance through the years. Of special importance is the limiting behavior of the flow and its symmetry properties. Taking this into account, we present a novel normalization for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Lino Grama , Ricardo M. Martins , Mauro Patrão , Lucas Seco , Llohann D. Sperança

The second author and H. Yin have developed a Ricci flow existence theory that gives a complete Ricci flow starting with a surface equipped with a conformal structure and a nonatomic Radon measure as a volume measure. This led to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Luke T. Peachey , Peter M. Topping

In this second part of our overview of the different metric curvatures and their various applications, we concentrate on the Ricci curvature and flow for polyhedral surfaces and higher dimensional manifolds, and we largely review our…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Emil Saucan

We contribute to an original problem studied by Hamilton and others, in order to understand the behaviour of maximal solutions of the Ricci flow both in compact and non-compact complete orientable Riemannian manifolds of finite volume. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Stefano Nardulli , Francesco G. Russo

In this paper, we establish a framework for the analysis of linear parabolic equations on conical surfaces and use them to study the conical Ricci flow. In particular, we prove the long time existence of the conical Ricci flow for general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Hao Yin