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In this paper we present some results on a family of geometric flows introduced by Bourguignon that generalize the Ricci flow. For suitable values of the scalar parameter involved in these flows, we prove short time existence and provide…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Giovanni Catino , Laura Cremaschi , Zindine Djadli , Carlo Mantegazza , Lorenzo Mazzieri

In this paper we consider the Ricci flow on manifolds with boundary with appropriate control on its mean curvature and conformal class. We obtain higher order estimates for the curvature and second fundamental form near the boundary,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-07 Panagiotis Gianniotis

In this paper we construct solutions to Ricci DeTurck flow in four dimensions on closed manifolds which are instantaneously smooth but whose initial values $g$ are (possibly) non-smooth Riemannian metrics whose components in smooth…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Tobias Lamm , Miles Simon

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 prove that synthetic lower Ricci bounds for metric measure spaces -- both in the sense of Bakry-\'Emery and in the sense of Lott-Sturm-Villani -- can be characterized by various functional inequalities including local Poincar\'e…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Eva Kopfer , Karl-Theodor Sturm

In this paper, we study the backward Ricci flow on locally homogeneous 3-manifolds. We describe the long time behavior and show that, typically and after a proper re-scaling, there is convergence to a sub-Riemannian geometry. A similar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-02 Xiaodong Cao , Laurent Saloff-Coste

This paper focuses on deriving several curvature inequalities involving the Ricci and scalar curvatures of the horizontal and vertical distributions in anti-invariant Riemannian submersions from quaternionic space forms onto Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Kirti Gupta , Punam Gupta , R. K. Gangele

In this paper we consider the local $L^p$ estimate of Riemannian curvature for the Ricci-harmonic flow or List's flow introduced by List \cite{List2005} on complete noncompact manifolds. As an application, under the assumption that the flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Yi Li , Miaosen Zhang

One of the most well-known results in the theory of optimal transportation is the equivalence between the convexity of the entropy functional with respect to the Riemannian Wasserstein metric and the Ricci curvature lower bound of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Paul W. Y. Lee

We consider the K\"ahler-Ricci flow $(X, \omega(t))_{t \in [0,T)}$ on a compact manifold where the time of singularity, $T$, is finite. We assume the existence of a holomorphic map from the K\"ahler manifold $X$ to some analytic variety $Y$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Alexander Bednarek

In this paper, we prove the Li-Yau type Harnack inequality and Hamilton type dimension free Harnack inequality for the heat equation $\partial_t u=Lu$ associated with the time dependent Witten Laplacian on complete Riemannian manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-19 Songzi Li , Xiang-Dong Li

This paper is devoted to a deeper understanding of the heat flow and to the refinement of calculus tools on metric measure spaces (X,d,m). Our main results are: - A general study of the relations between the Hopf-Lax semigroup and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Luigi Ambrosio , Nicola Gigli , Giuseppe Savaré

In this paper we study the porous medium equation (PME) coupled with the Ricci flow on complete manifolds with bounded nonnegative curvature operator. In particular, we derive Aronson-B\'enilan and Li-Yau-Hamilton type differential Harnack…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Huai-Dong Cao , Meng Zhu

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 consider the evolution of hypersurfaces on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n+1}$ by their mean curvature. We prove a differential Harnack inequality for any weakly convex solution to the mean curvature flow. As an application, by applying…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-10 Paul Bryan , Mohammad N. Ivaki

In this paper we study the long time existence of the Ricci-harmonic flow in terms of scalar curvature and Weyl tensor which extends Cao's result \cite{Cao2011} in the Ricci flow. In dimension four, we also study the integral bound of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-30 Yi Li

We consider a subset $S$ of the complex Lie algebra $\so(n,\C)$ and the cone $C(S)$ of curvature operators which are nonnegative on $S$. We show that $C(S)$ defines a Ricci flow invariant curvature condition if $S$ is invariant under…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-11 Burkhard Wilking

In this paper, we study the elliptic Harnack inequality and its applications on forward complete Finsler metric measure spaces under the conditions that the weighted Ricci curvature ${\rm Ric}_{\infty}$ has non-positive lower bound and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Xinyue Cheng , Liulin Liu , Yu Zhang

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

In this paper, we study the Ricci flow on a closed manifold and finite time interval $[0,T)~(T < \infty)$ on which certain integral curvature energies are finite. We prove that in dimension four, such flow converges to a smooth Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Shota Hamanaka