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This paper investigates the question of stability for a class of Ricci flows which start at possibly non-smooth metric spaces. We show that if the initial metric space is Reifenberg and locally bi-Lipschitz to Euclidean space, then two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Alix Deruelle , Felix Schulze , Miles Simon

We develop a framework inspired by Lauret's "bracket flow" to study the generalized Ricci flow, as introduced by Streets, on discrete quotients of Lie groups. As a first application, we establish global existence on solvmanifolds in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Elia Fusi , Ramiro A. Lafuente , James Stanfield

The Ricci flow is one of the most important topics in differential geometry, and a central focus of modern geometric analysis. In this paper, we give an illustrated introduction to the subject which is intended for a general audience. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-17 Gabriel Khan

[Dedicated to Richard S. Hamilton on forty years of Ricci flow] Gradient Ricci solitons have garnered significant attention both as self-similar solutions and singularity models of the Ricci flow. This survey article starts with a list of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Xiaodong Cao , Hung Tran

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

The geometric description of incompressible hydrodynamics, as geodesic motion on the infinite-dimensional group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms, enables notions of curvature in the study of fluids in order to study stability. Formulas…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Leandro Lichtenfelz , Klas Modin , Stephen C. Preston

We present numerical visualizations of Ricci Flow of surfaces and 3-dimensional manifolds of revolution. Ricci_rot is an educational tool which visualizes surfaces of revolution moving under Ricci flow. That these surfaces tend to remain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Hyam Rubinstein , Robert Sinclair

A three-dimensional closed orientable orbifold (with no bad suborbifolds) is known to have a geometric decomposition from work of Perelman along with earlier work of Boileau-Leeb-Porti and Cooper-Hodgson-Kerckhoff. We give a new, logically…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-05 Bruce Kleiner , John Lott

In this paper we consider $4$-dimensional steady soliton singularity models, i.e., complete steady gradient Ricci solitons that arise as the rescaled limit of a finite time singular solution of the Ricci flow on a closed $4$-manifold. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Richard Bamler , Bennett Chow , Yuxing Deng , Zilu Ma , Yongjia Zhang

The Ricci flow on the 2-sphere with marked points is shown to converge in all three stable, semi-stable, and unstable cases. In the stable case, the flow was known to converge without any reparametrization, and a new proof of this fact is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-07 D. H. Phong , Jian Song , Jacob Sturm , Xiaowei Wang

A lattice based method will be presented for numerical investigations of Ricci flow. The method will be applied to the particular case of 2-dimensional axially symmetric initial data on manifolds with S^2 topology. Results will be presented…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-14 Leo Brewin

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 consider the Ricci flow equation for invariant metrics on compact and connected homogeneous spaces whose isotropy representation decomposes into two irreducible inequivalent summands. By studying the corresponding dynamical system, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-17 Maria Buzano

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

In this paper we investigate a kind of generalized Ricci flow which possesses a gradient form. We study the monotonicity of the given function under the generalized Ricci flow and prove that the related system of partial differential…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-19 Chun-lei He , Sen Hu , De-Xing Kong , Kefeng Liu

We study the Ricci flow of initial metrics which are C^0-perturbations of the hyperbolic metric on H^n. If the perturbation is bounded in the L^2-sense, and small enough in the C^0-sense, then we show the following: In dimensions four and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-11 Oliver C. Schnürer , Felix Schulze , Miles Simon

Ricci flow deformation of cosmological initial data sets in general relativity is a technique for generating families of initial data sets which potentially would allow to interpolate between distinct spacetimes. This idea has been around…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Mauro Carfora , Thomas Buchert

We establish a short-time existence theory for complete Ricci flows under scaling-invariant curvature bounds, starting from rotationally symmetric metrics on $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ that are noncollapsed at infinity, without assuming bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Ming Hsiao

This project serves to analyze the behavior of Ricci Flow in five dimensional manifolds. Ricci Flow was introduced by Richard Hamilton in 1982 and was an essential tool in proving the Geometrization and Poincare Conjectures. In general,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Amanda Hirschmann , Thomas Bell

As part of the general investigation of Ricci flow on complete surfaces with finite total curvature, we study this flow for surfaces with asymptotically conical (which includes as a special case asymptotically Euclidean) geometries. After…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-30 James Isenberg , Rafe Mazzeo , Natasa Sesum