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By using the Yamabe flow, we prove that if $(M^n,g)$, $n\geq3$, is an $n$-dimensional locally conformally flat complete Riemannian manifold $Rc\geq \epsilon Rg>0$, where $\epsilon>0$ is a uniformly constant, then $M^n$ must be compact. Our…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Liang Cheng

The conformal heat flow of harmonic maps is a system of evolution equations combined with harmonic map flow with metric evolution in conformal direction. It is known that global weak solution of the flow exists and smooth except at mostly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Woongbae Park

In the study of conformal geometry, the method of elliptic partial differential equations is playing an increasingly significant role. Since the solution of the Yamabe problem, a family of conformally covariant operators (for definition,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sun-Yung Alice Chang , Paul C. Yang

In this paper we revisit the $\sigma_k$-Yamabe problem on $M^n$, namely, finding a conformal metric with constant $\sigma_k$-scalar curvature. We prove that on a closed manifold $\left(M,\left[g_0\right]\right)$ with positive Yamabe…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Yuxin Ge , Guofang Wang , Wei Wei

We prove global existence of instantaneously complete Yamabe flows on hyperbolic space of arbitrary dimension $m\geq3$. The initial metric is assumed to be conformally hyperbolic with conformal factor and scalar curvature bounded from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Mario B. Schulz

Given a smooth positive function $F\in C^{\infty}(\mathbb{S}^n)$ such that the square of its positive $1$-homogeneous extension on $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\setminus \{0\}$ is uniformly convex, the Wulff shape $W_F$ is a smooth uniformly convex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Yong Wei , Changwei Xiong

A manifold $M$ is locally conformally Kahler (LCK) if it admits a Kahler covering with monodromy acting by holomorphic homotheties. Let $M$ be an LCK manifold admitting a holomorphic conformal flow of diffeomorphisms, lifted to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-01 Liviu Ornea , Misha Verbitsky

In this paper, we consider the Yamabe equation on a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold and find some geometric conditions on the manifold such that the Yamabe problem admits a bounded positive solution.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Guodong Wei

This is a final step in a local classification of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with parallel Weyl tensor that are not conformally flat or locally symmetric.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-06 Andrzej Derdzinski , Witold Roter

J. Streets and G. Tian recently introduced symplectic curvature flow, a geometric flow on almost K\"ahler manifolds generalising K\"ahler-Ricci flow. The present article gives examples of explicit solutions to this flow of non-K\"ahler…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-08 Julian Pook

Chow and Hamilton introduced the cross curvature flow on closed 3-manifolds with negative or positive sectional curvature. In this paper, we study the negative cross curvature flow in the case of locally homogenous metrics on 3-manifolds.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-11-06 Xiaodong Cao , Yilong Ni , Laurent Saloff-Coste

We initiate the study of an analogue of the Yamabe problem for complex manifolds. More precisely, fixed a conformal Hermitian structure on a compact complex manifold, we are concerned in the existence of metrics with constant Chern scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Daniele Angella , Simone Calamai , Cristiano Spotti

For any $\alpha>0,$ we study $k^{\alpha}$-type length-preserving and area-preserving nonlocal flow of convex closed plane curves and show that these two types of flow evolve such curves into round circles in $C^{\infty}% $-norm.$\ $Other…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-24 Dong-Ho Tsai , Xiao-Liu Wang

An elastic sheet lying on the surface of a liquid, if axially compressed, shows a transition from a smooth sinusoidal pattern to a well localized fold. This wrinkle-to-fold transition is a manifestation of a localized buckling. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-03-06 Marco Rivetti

This paper is concerned with a fourth order nonlinear dispersive partial differential equation for closed curve flow on a K\"ahler manifold. The main results is that the initial value problem has a solution locally in time if the K\"ahler…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-16 Eiji Onodera

In this paper, we provide a classification of steady solutions to two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations in terms of the set of flow angles. The first main result asserts that the set of flow angles of any bounded steady flow in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Changfeng Gui , Chunjing Xie , Huan Xu

This paper studies the combinatorial Yamabe flow on hyperbolic bordered surfaces. We show that the flow exists for all time and converges exponentially fast to conformal factor which produces a hyperbolic surface whose lengths of boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Shengyu Li , Xu Xu , Ze Zhou

We introduced a new flow to the LYZ equation on a compact K\"ahler manifold. We first show the existence of the longtime solution of the flow. We then show that under the Collins-Jacob-Yau's condition on the subsolution, the longtime…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Jixiang Fu , Shing-Tung Yau , Dekai Zhang

In this article we study a class of prescribed curvature problems on complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds. To be precise, we derive local $C^0$-estimate under an asymptotic condition which is in effect optimal, and prove the existence…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Rirong Yuan

In this article, we study the the harmonic map heat flow from a manifold with conic singularities to a closed manifold. In particular, we have proved the short time existence and uniqueness of solutions as well as the existence of global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-02 Yuanzhen Shao , Changyou Wang