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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

In this paper, we study the Ricci flow of solvmanifolds whose Lie algebra has an abelian ideal of codimension one, by using the bracket flow. We prove that solutions to the Ricci flow are immortal, the omega-limit of bracket flow solutions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-16 Romina M. Arroyo

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

Haslhofer and M\"uller proved a compactness Theorem for four-dimensional shrinking gradient Ricci solitons, with the only assumption being that the entropy is uniformly bounded from below. However, the limit in their result could possibly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Yongjia Zhang

We show that any ancient solution to the Ricci flow which satisfies a suitable curvature pinching condition must have constant sectional curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-19 S. Brendle , G. Huisken , C. Sinestrari

We introduce and study a new general flow of $\mathrm{G}_2$-structures which we call the Ricci-harmonic flow of $\mathrm{G}_2$-structures. The flow is the coupling of the Ricci flow of underlying metrics and the isometric flow of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Shubham Dwivedi

We investigate the compact submanifolds in Riemannian space forms of nonnegative sectional curvature that satisfy a lower bound on the Ricci curvature, that bound depending solely on the length of the mean curvature vector of the immersion.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Marcos Dajczer , Theodoros Vlachos

In this short paper, we prove a Hitchin-Thorpe type inequality for closed 4-manifolds with non-positive Yamabe invariant, and admitting long time solutions of the normalized Ricci flow equation with bounded scalar curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-08 Yuguang Zhang , Zhenlei Zhang

For each $n\ge 3$, we construct a 'pancake-like', $O(2)\times O(n-1)$-invariant ancient Ricci flow with positive curvature operator and bounded "girth", and we determine its asymptotic limits backwards in time. This solution is new even in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Theodora Bourni , Timothy Buttsworth , Ramiro Lafuente , Mat Langford

In this paper, we prove Hamilton-Ivey estimates for the Ricci-Bourguignon flow on a compact manifold, with $n=3$ and $\rho<0$. As a consequence, we prove that compact ancient solutions have nonnegative sectional curvature for all negative…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Valter Borges

For an immortal Ricci flow on an $m$-dimensional $(m\ge 3)$ closed manifold, we show the following convergence results: (1) if the curvature and diameter are uniformly bounded, then any unbounded sequence of time slices sub-converges to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Shaosai Huang

We show that the analog of Hamilton's Ricci flow in the combinatorial setting produces solutions which converge exponentially fast to Thurston's circle packing on surfaces. As a consequence, a new proof of Thurston's existence of circle…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bennett Chow , Feng Luo

We survey all results concerning the topology of complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature that have no additional conditions other than restrictions to the dimension, volume growth or diameter growth of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-09 Zhongmin Shen , Christina Sormani

We show that, given an immortal solution to the Ricci flow on a closed manifold with uniformly bounded curvature and diameter, the Ricci tensor goes to zero as t goes to infinity. We also show that if there exists an immortal solution on a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Christian Hilaire

In this paper we construct a Ricci de Turck flow on any incomplete Riemannian manifold with bounded curvature. The central property of the flow is that it stays uniformly equivalent to the initial incomplete Riemannian metric, and in that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Tobias Marxen , Boris Vertman

Combinatorial Ricci flow on a cusped $3$-manifold is an analogue of Chow-Luo's combinatorial Ricci flow on surfaces and Luo's combinatorial Ricci flow on compact $3$-manifolds with boundary for finding complete hyperbolic metrics on cusped…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Xu Xu

In the present work we find the Lie point symmetries of the Ricci flow on an $n$-dimensional manifold. and we introduce a method in order to reutilize these symmetries to obtain the Lie point symmetries of particular metrics. We apply this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Enrique López , Stylianos Dimas , Yuri Bozhkov

This is an expository article with complete proofs intended for a general non-specialist audience. The results are two-fold. First, we discuss a geometric invariant, that we call the width, of a manifold and show how it can be realized as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-07-03 Tobias H. Colding , William P. Minicozzi

The stability of a recently developed piecewise flat Ricci flow is investigated, using a linear stability analysis and numerical simulations, and a class of piecewise flat approximations of smooth manifolds is adapted to avoid an inherent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Rory Conboye

Understanding the relationships between geometry and topology is a central theme in Riemannian geometry. We establish two results on the fundamental groups of open (complete and noncompact) $n$-manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Dimitri Navarro , Jiayin Pan , Xingyu Zhu