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The famous Uniformization Theorem states that on closed Riemannian surfaces there always exists a metric of constant curvature for the Levi-Cevita connection. In this article we prove that an analogue of the uniformization theorem also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Volker Branding , Klaus Kroencke

This paper studies normalized Ricci flow on a nonparabolic surface, whose scalar curvature is asymptotically -1 in an integral sense. By a method initiated by R. Hamilton, the flow is shown to converge to a metric of constant scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Hao Yin

We note that the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics reduce to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a particular scaling limit. In this limit boundary metric fluctuations of the underlying relativistic system turn into a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-24 Sayantani Bhattacharyya , Shiraz Minwalla , Spenta R. Wadia

We construct the classical mechanics associated with a conformally flat Riemannian metric on a compact, n-dimensional manifold without boundary. The corresponding gradient Ricci flow equation turns out to equal the time-dependent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-16 S. Abraham , P. Fernandez de Cordoba , J. M. Isidro , J. L. G. Santander

We survey some recent work using Ricci flow to create a class of local definitions of weak lower scalar curvature bounds that is well defined for $C^0$ metrics. We discuss several properties of these definitions and explain some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Paula Burkhardt-Guim

Ricci flow deforms the Riemannian metric proportionally to the curvature, such that the curvature evolves according to a heat diffusion process and eventually becomes constant everywhere. Ricci flow has demonstrated its great potential by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-03-31 Min Zhang , Ren Guo , Wei Zeng , Feng Luo , Shing-Tung Yau , Xianfeng Gu

A fundamental tool in the analysis of Ricci flow is a compactness result of Hamilton in the spirit of the work of Cheeger, Gromov and others. Roughly speaking it allows one to take a sequence of Ricci flows with uniformly bounded curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-18 Peter Topping

In this note we study conformal Ricci flow introduced by Arthur Fischer. We use DeTurck's trick to rewrite conformal Ricci flow as a strong parabolic-elliptic partial differential equations. Then we prove short time existences for conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-27 Peng Lu , Jie Qing , Yu Zheng

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

Glickenstein introduced the discrete conformal structures on polyhedral surfaces in an axiomatic approach from Riemannian geometry perspective. It includes Thurston's circle packings, Bowers-Stephenson's inversive distance circle packings…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Xu Xu

With respect to any special boundary defining function, a conformally compact asymptotically hyperbolic metric has an asymptotic expansion near its conformal infinity. If this expansion is even to a certain order and satisfies one extra…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Eric Bahuaud , Rafe Mazzeo , Eric Woolgar

A flow of metrics, $g_t$, on a manifold is a solution of a differential equation $\dt g = S(g)$, where a geometric functional $S(g)$ is a symmetric $(0,2)$-tensor usually related to some kind of curvature. The mixed sectional curvature of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-28 Vladimir Rovenski , Vladimir Sharafutdinov

We find a local solution to the Ricci flow equation under a negative lower bound for many known curvature conditions. The flow exists for a uniform amount of time, during which the curvature stays bounded below by a controllable negative…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Yi Lai

We consider a normalization of the Ricci flow on a closed Riemannian manifold given by the evolution equation $\partial_{t}g(t)=-2(Ric(g(t))-\frac{1}{2\tau}g(t))$ where $\tau$ is a fixed positive number. Assuming that a solution for this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Antonio G. Ache

This is the second paper in a series of works devoted to nonholonomic Ricci flows. By imposing non-integrable (nonholonomic) constraints on the Ricci flows of Riemannian metrics we can model mutual transforms of generalized Finsler-Lagrange…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Sergiu I. Vacaru

In this paper, we use the normalized Ricci-DeTurk flow to prove a stability result for strictly stable conformally compact Einstein manifolds. As an application, we show a local volume comparison of conformally compact manifolds with scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-10 Xue Hu , Dandan Ji , Yuguang Shi

A question about Ricci flow is when the diameters of the manifold under the evolving metrics stay finite and bounded away from 0. Topping \cite{T:1} addresses the question with an upper bound that depends on the $L^{(n-1)/2}$ bound of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-11 Qi S Zhang

This paper explores the evolution and monotonicity of geometric constants within the framework of extended Ricci flows, incorporating variable coupling parameters. Building on Hamiltons foundational Ricci flow and subsequent extensions by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Shouvik Datta Choudhury

This note is a study of nonnegativity conditions on curvature which are preserved by the Ricci flow. We focus on specific kinds of curvature conditions which we call noncoercive, these are the conditions for which nonnegative curvature and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-07 Thomas Richard , Harish Seshadri

I survey some of the developments in the theory of Ricci flow and its applications from the past decade. I focus mainly on the understanding of Ricci flows that are permitted to have unbounded curvature in the sense that the curvature can…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-07 Peter M. Topping