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B List has proposed a geometric flow whose fixed points correspond to solutions of the static Einstein equations of general relativity. This flow is now known to be a certain Hamilton-DeTurck flow (the pullback of a Ricci flow by an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-03 L. Gulcev , T. A. Oliynyk , E. Woolgar

We consider the normalized Ricci flow evolving from an initial metric which is conformally compactifiable and asymptotically hyperbolic. We show that there is a unique evolving metric which remains in this class, and that the flow exists up…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-07 Eric Bahuaud , Eric Woolgar

A manifestly gauge invariant and regularized renormalization group flow equation is constructed for pure SU(N) gauge theory in the large N limit. In this way we make precise and concrete the notion of a non-perturbative gauge invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-10 Tim R. Morris

A Palatini-type action for Einstein and Gauss-Bonnet gravity with non-trivial torsion is proposed. Three-form flux is incorporated via a deformation of the Riemann tensor, and consistency of the Palatini variational principle requires the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Ralph Blumenhagen , Andreas Deser , Erik Plauschinn , Felix Rennecke

We derive the RG-flow equations of the sliding Luttinger liquid perturbed by charge-density-wave (CDW) and superconducting (SC) operators. Using them we study the phase diagram of an array of XXZ spin chains coupled by Ising terms. In the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Sierra

In this article we prove an $\epsilon$-regularity theorem for non-collapsed Ricci flows, and use this to prove new estimates for singularity models of Fano K\"ahler-Ricci flows. In the course of our proof, we find a criterion for uniform…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Harry Fluck , Max Hallgren

We prove the existence and uniqueness of a weighted analogue of the Fefferman-Graham ambient metric for manifolds with density. We then show that this ambient metric forms the natural geometric framework for the singular Ricci flow: given a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Ayush Khaitan

The exact renormalization group equation for pure quantum gravity is used to derive the non-perturbative $\Fbeta$-functions for the dimensionless Newton constant and cosmological constant on the theory space spanned by the Einstein-Hilbert…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 M. Reuter , F. Saueressig

We continue the study of topological nonrelativistic quantum gravity associated with a family of Ricci flow equations on Riemannian manifolds. This topological gravity is of the cohomological type, and it exhibits an ${\cal N}=2$ extended…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-08 Alexander Frenkel , Petr Horava , Stephen Randall

In this paper we compute the Ricci flow formulas for invariant metrics on prinicpal $G$-bundles compatible with the connection. Our primary focus is on torus bundles which we use to study a notion of Bakry-\'Emery Ricci flow as well as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Dmytro Yeroshkin

We show for a non homogeneous boundary value problem for the Ricci flow on the disk that when the initial metric has positive curvature and the boundary is convex then the initial metric is deformed, via the normalized flow and along…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-11 Jean C. Cortissoz , Alexander Murcia

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

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

We construct a gravity dual for scale invariant but non-conformal field theories with a cyclic renormalization group flow. A slight modification of our construction gives a gravity dual of discretely scale invariant field theories. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-02-07 Yu Nakayama

We perform a systematic analysis of flow-like solutions in theories of Einstein gravity coupled to multiple scalar fields, which arise as holographic RG flows as well as in the context of cosmological solutions driven by scalars. We use the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Francesco Nitti , Leandro Silva Pimenta , Danièle A. Steer

Over the last decade the gradient flow formalism became an important tool for lattice simulations of Quantum Chromodynamics. It offers remarkable renormalization properties which pave the way for cross-fertilization between perturbative and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-22 Fabian Lange

In this paper, the author discusses the eigenvalues and entropies under the harmonic-Ricci flow, which is the Ricci flow coupled with the harmonic map flow. We give an alternative proof of results for compact steady and expanding…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Yi Li

In \cite{ChauMartens} the authors proved the long-time existence of Ricci flow starting from complete bounded curvature Riemannian manifolds with scale-invariant integral curvature bounded by a dimensional constant times the inverse of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Albert Chau , Adam Martens

The Ricci flow is a partial differential equation for evolving the metric in a Riemannian manifold to make it more regular. On the other hand, neural networks seem to have similar geometric behavior for specific tasks. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Jun Chen , Tianxin Huang , Wenzhou Chen , Yong Liu

The renormalization group flow in two--dimensional field theories is modified if they are coupled to gravity. Beta function coefficients are changed, the $c$--theorem is no longer strictly valid, and flows from fixed points with central…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Christof Schmidhuber