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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 establish the short-time existence and uniqueness theorem for hyperbolic geometric flow, and prove the nonlinear stability of hyperbolic geometric flow defined on the Euclidean space with dimension larger than 4. Wave…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Wen-Rong Dai , De-Xing Kong , Kefeng Liu

I discuss certain applications of the Ricci flow in physics. I first review how it arises in the renormalization group (RG) flow of a nonlinear sigma model. I then review the concept of a Ricci soliton and recall how a soliton was used to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Woolgar

We study Ricci flows on $R^n$, $n\ge 3$, that evolve from asymptotically flat initial data. Under mild conditions on the initial data, we show that the flow exists and remains asymptotically flat for an interval of time. The mass is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-09 T. Oliynyk , E. Woolgar

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

The elliptic Einstein-DeTurck equation may be used to numerically find Einstein metrics on Riemannian manifolds. Static Lorentzian Einstein metrics are considered by analytically continuing to Euclidean time. Ricci-DeTurck flow is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Pau Figueras , James Lucietti , Toby Wiseman

The main purpose of this note is to construct two functionals of the positive solutions to the conjugate heat equation associated to the metrics evolving by the conformal Ricci flow on closed manifolds. We show that they are nondecreasing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Fengjiang Li , Peng Lu , Jianhong Wang , Yu Zheng

We analyse Ricci flow (normalised/un-normalised) of product manifolds --unwarped as well as warped, through a study of generic examples. First, we investigate such flows for the unwarped scenario with manifolds of the type $\mathbb…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-09 Sanjit Das , Kartik Prabhu , Sayan Kar

In this paper we prove localised weighted curvature integral estimates for solutions to the Ricci flow in the setting of a smooth four dimensional Ricci flow or a closed $n$-dimensional K\"ahler Ricci flow. These integral estimates improve…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Jiawei Liu , Miles Simon

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

The geometric flow theory and its applications turned into one of the most intensively developing branches of modern geometry. Here, a brief introduction to Finslerian Ricci flow and their self-similar solutions known as Ricci solitons are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Behroz Bidabad , Mohammad Yar Ahmadi

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

This paper studies the normalized Ricci flow on surfaces with conical singularities. It's proved that the normalized Ricci flow has a solution for a short time for initial metrics with conical singularities. Moreover, the solution makes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Hao Yin

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

Identifying any conformally round metric on the $2$-sphere with a unique cross section on the standard lightcone in the $3+1$-Minkowski spacetime, we gain a new perspective on $2d$-Ricci flow on topological spheres. It turns out that in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Markus Wolff

We study curvature pinching estimates of Ricci flow on complete 3- dimensional manifolds without bounded curvature assumption. We will derive some general curvature conditions which are preserved on any complete solution of 3-dim Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-22 Bing-Long Chen , Guoyi Xu , Zhuhong Zhang

This is a continuation of the research in [16]. Let $(\overline{M},g_{-1})$ be a closed geodesic $r_0$-ball in the hyperbolic space $(\mathbb{H}^n,g_{-1})$. Let $m\neq1$ be a positive constant. In this paper, we show that for $n\geq3$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Gang Li

We show that in dimension 4 and above, the lifespan of Ricci flows depends on the relative smallness of the Ricci curvature compared to the Riemann curvature on the initial manifold. We can generalize this lifespan estimate to the local…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-28 Fei He

We study a new notion of Ricci curvature that applies to Markov chains on discrete spaces. This notion relies on geodesic convexity of the entropy and is analogous to the one introduced by Lott, Sturm, and Villani for geodesic measure…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Matthias Erbar , Jan Maas

In this paper, we study the Ricci flow on manifolds with boundary. In the first part of the paper, we prove short-time existence and uniqueness of the solution, in which the boundary becomes instantaneously umbilic for positive time. In the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Tsz-Kiu Aaron Chow