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We present a notion of super Ricci flow for time-dependent finite weighted graphs. A challenging feature is that these flows typically encounter singularities where the underlying graph structure changes. Our notion is robust enough to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-18 Matthias Erbar , Eva Kopfer

A geometric flow based in the Riemann-Christoffel curvature tensor that in two dimensions has some common features with the usual Ricci flow is presented. For $n$ dimensional spaces this new flow takes into account all the components of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Patricio S. Letelier

We introduce a new curvature flow which matches with the Ricci flow on metrics and preserves the almost Hermitian condition. This enables us to use Ricci flow to study almost Hermitian manifolds.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Casey Lynn Kelleher , Gang Tian

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

In this work, we are going to find sufficient conditions on the initial triaxial Bianchi IX metric on some 4-dimensional manifolds foliated by homogeneous S3 for a Type I singularity to occur when it is flowed under the Ricci flow. This…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-25 M. Syafiq Johar

We construct a class of monotonic quantities along the normalized Ricci flow on closed n-dimensional manifolds.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-24 Jun Ling

We show that a simply-connected closed four-dimensional Ricci flow whose Ricci curvature is uniformly bounded below and whose volume does not approach zero must converge to a $C^{0}$ orbifold at any finite-time singularity, so has an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Max Hallgren

Ricci flow spacetimes were introduced by Kleiner & Lott as a way to describe Ricci flow through singularities, and have since been used elsewhere in the literature, prompting the question of their rigidity. In $(2+1)$-dimensions, we show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Luke Thomas Peachey

We study the short-time existence and regularity of solutions to a boundary value problem for the Ricci-DeTurck equation on a manifold with boundary. Using this, we prove the short-time existence and uniqueness of the Ricci flow prescribing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-14 Panagiotis Gianniotis

We study the Ricci flow on complete Kaehler metrics that live on the complement of a divisor in a compact complex manifold. In earlier work, we considered finite-volume metrics which, at spatial infinity, are transversely hyperbolic. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-14 John Lott , Zhou Zhang

We present a synthetic notion of scalar curvature (and its integral) for Riemannian manifolds and metric measure spaces, defined in terms of the initial slope of a Gaussian (double) integral. We explicitly calculate the integral scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Marco Flaim , Erik Hupp , Karl-Theodor Sturm

Ricci curvature and Ricci flow have proven to be powerful tools for analyzing the geometry of discrete structures, particularly on undirected graphs, where they have been applied to tasks ranging from community detection to graph…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Shuliang Bai , Rui Li , Shuang Liu , Xin Lai

This article reports recent developments of the research on Hamilton's Ricci flow and its applications.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Huai-Dong Cao , Bennett Chow

Using a recently developed piecewise flat method, numerical evolutions of the Ricci flow are computed for a number of manifolds, using a number of different mesh types, and shown to converge to the expected smooth behaviour as the mesh…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-26 Rory Conboye

We extend the concept of singular Ricci flow by Kleiner and Lott from 3d compact manifolds to 3d complete manifolds with possibly unbounded curvature. As an application of the generalized singular Ricci flow, we show that for any 3d…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Yi Lai

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

In this work, we prove uniqueness for complete non-compact Ricci flow with scaling invariant curvature bound. This generalizes the earlier work of Chen-Zhu, Kotschwar and covers most of the example of Ricci flows with unbounded curvature.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Man-Chun Lee

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 survey the recent developments of the Ricci flows on complete noncompact K\"{a}hler manifolds and their applications in geometry.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xi-Ping Zhu

Regarding Ricci flow as a dynamical system, we derive sufficient conditions for noncompact stationary (Ricci-flat) solutions to possess infinite-dimensional unstable manifolds, and provide examples satisfying those criteria that have…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Sigurd B. Angenent , Dan Knopf