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We revisit the problem of uniqueness for the Ricci flow and give a short, direct proof, based on the consideration of a simple energy quantity, of Hamilton/Chen-Zhu's theorem on the uniqueness of complete solutions of uniformly bounded…

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We study collapsed manifolds with Ricci bounded covering geometry i.e., Ricci curvature is bounded below and the Riemannian universal cover is non-collapsed or consists of uniform Reifenberg points. Via Ricci flows' techniques, we partially…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Hongzhi Huang , Lingling Kong , Xiaochun Rong , Shicheng Xu

We prove a compactness theorem for K\"ahler metrics with various bounds on Ricci curvature and the $\mathcal I$ functional. We explore applications of our result to the continuity method and the Calabi flow.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Xiuxiong Chen , Tamás Darvas , Weiyong He

In this paper, we prove a pseudolocality-type theorem for $\mathcal L$-complete noncompact Ricci flow which may not have bounded sectional curvature; with the help of it we study the uniqueness of the Ricci flow on noncompact manifolds. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Liang Cheng , Yongjia Zhang

In this paper, we study curvature behavior at the first singular time of solution to the Ricci flow on a smooth, compact n-dimensional Riemannian manifold $M$, $\frac{\partial}{\partial t}g_{ij} = -2R_{ij}$ for $t\in [0,T)$. If the flow has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-05-31 Nam Q. Le , Natasa Sesum

This is a survey paper focusing on the interplay between the curvature and topology of a Riemannian manifold. The first part of the paper provides a background discussion, aimed at non-experts, of Hopf's pinching problem and the Sphere…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-01 S. Brendle , R. M. Schoen

Motivated by a question of Tsai-Tsui-Wang, we consider the rigidity of map from manifolds with positive Ricci curvature to manifolds with positive sectional curvature. We show that if the Ricci curvature of the domain dominates that of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Man-Chun Lee , Jingbo Wan

In this paper we discuss the asymptotic entropy for ancient solutions to the Ricci flow. We prove a gap theorem for ancient solutions, which could be regarded as an entropy counterpart of Yokota's work. In addition, we prove that under some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Yongjia Zhang

This is a technical paper, which is a continuation of math.DG/0211159. Here we construct Ricci flow with surgeries and verify most of the assertions, made in section 13 of that e-print; the exceptions are (1) the statement that manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Grisha Perelman

In this note we discuss the fundamental groups and diameters of positively Ricci curved $n$-manifolds. We use a method combining the results about equivarient Hausdorff convergence developed by Fukaya and Yamaguchi with the Ricci version of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Wen-Haw Chen , Jyh-Yang Wu

In this paper, we introduce a new combinatorial curvature on triangulated surfaces with inversive distance circle packing metrics. Then we prove that this combinatorial curvature has global rigidity. To study the Yamabe problem of the new…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-30 Huabin Ge , Xu Xu

What restrictions are there on a spacetime for which the Ricci curvature is such as to produce convergence of geodesics (such as the preconditions for the Singularity Theorems) but for which there are no singularities? We answer this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 David Garfinkle , Steven G. Harris

In this paper we characterize non-collapsed limits of Ricci flows. We show that such limits are smooth away from a set of codimension $\geq 4$ in the parabolic sense and that the tangent flows at every point are given by gradient shrinking…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Richard H Bamler

In this paper we prove a conjecture by Feldman-Ilmanen-Knopf in \cite{FIK} that the gradient shrinking soliton metric they constructed on the tautological line bundle over $\CP^1$ is the uniform limit of blow-ups of a type I Ricci flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-27 Davi Máximo

We complete the proof of the Generalized Smale Conjecture, apart from the case of $RP^3$, and give a new proof of Gabai's theorem for hyperbolic 3-manifolds. We use an approach based on Ricci flow through singularities, which applies…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Richard H. Bamler , Bruce Kleiner

This article deals with the problems of preserving the Ricci curvature positivity on homogeneous spaces under the normalized Ricci flow (NRF). We found out infinitely many generalized Wallach spaces (GWS) on which the positivity of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Nurlan A. Abiev

We show $L^1$-bounds of the Riemann curvature tensor on a smooth closed $n$-dimensional Ricci flow. To achieve this we introduce the notion of a neck of maximal symmetry, similar to the one in Cheeger-Jiang-Naber and Jiang-Naber and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Panagiotis Gianniotis , Konstantinos Leskas

We study "warped Berger" solutions $\big(\mc S^1\times\mc S^3,G(t)\big)$ of Ricci flow: generalized warped products with the metric induced on each fiber $\{s\}\times\mathrm{SU}(2)$ a left-invariant Berger metric. We prove that this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-23 James Isenberg , Dan Knopf , Natasa Sesum

We proved that the normalized Ricci flow does not preserve the positivity of Ricci curvature of Riemannian metrics on every generalized Wallach space with $a_1+a_2+a_3\le 1/2$, in particular on the spaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Nurlan Abiev

We demonstrate that any four-dimensional shrinking Ricci soliton $(\mathcal B \times {\mathbb S^2}, g)$, where $\mathcal B$ is any two-dimensional complete noncompact surface and $g$ is a warped product metric over the base $\mathcal B$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-13 James Isenberg , Dan Knopf , Zilu Ma , Natasa Sesum