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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 article we prove an $\epsilon$-regularity theorem for non-collapsed Ricci flows, and use this to prove new estimates for singularity models of Fano K\"ahler-Ricci flows. In the course of our proof, we find a criterion for uniform…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Harry Fluck , Max Hallgren

In this paper, we consider the Ricci flow with prescribed curvature on the finite graph $G=(V,E)$. For any $e$ in $E$, $$\frac{d\omega(t,e)}{dt} = -(\kappa(t,e)-\kappa^*(e))\omega(t,e), t > 0,$$ where $\omega$ is the weight function,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Yong Lin , Shuang Liu

Metric measure spaces with synthetic Ricci bounds have attracted great interest in recent years, accompanied by spectacular breakthroughs and deep new insights. In this survey, I will provide a brief introduction to the concept of lower…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Karl-Theodor Sturm

The Ricci flow has been of fundamental importance in mathematics, most famously though its use as a tool for proving the Poincar\'e Conjecture and Thurston's Geometrization Conjecture. It has a parallel life in physics, arising as the first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-23 Karsten Gimre , Christine Guenther , James Isenberg

In recent work of Chan-Huang-Lee, it is shown that if a manifold enjoys uniform bounds on (a) the negative part of the scalar curvature, (b) the local entropy, and (c) volume ratios up to a fixed scale, then there exists a Ricci flow for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Adam Martens

In this paper, we introduce two discrete curvature flows, which are called $\alpha$-flows on two and three dimensional triangulated manifolds. For triangulated surface $M$, we introduce a new normalization of combinatorial Ricci flow (first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Huabin Ge , Xu Xu

This paper is devoted to the investigation of the monotonicity of parabolic frequency functional under conformal Ricci flow defined on a closed Riemannian manifold of constant scalar curvature and dimension not less than 3. Parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Abimbola Abolarinwa , Shahroud Azami

We consider Ricci flow invariant cones C in the space of curvature operators lying between nonnegative Ricci curvature and nonnegative curvature operator. Assuming some mild control on the scalar curvature of the Ricci flow, we show that if…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-04 Thomas Richard

In this paper we prove that given a smoothly conformally compact metric there is a short-time solution to the Ricci flow that remains smoothly conformally compact. We adapt recent results of Schn\"urer, Schulze and Simon to prove a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Eric Bahuaud

In Riemannian geometry, the Ricci flow is the analogue of heat diffusion; a deformation of the metric tensor driven by its Ricci curvature. As a step towards resolving the problem of time in quantum gravity, we attempt to merge the Ricci…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-05 Mohammed Alzain

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

In this paper we study the evolution of almost non-negatively curved (possibly singular) three dimensional metric spaces by Ricci flow. The non-negatively curved metric spaces which we consider arise as limits of smooth Riemannian manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 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

In this paper we introduce the stochastic Ricci flow (SRF) in two spatial dimensions. The flow is symmetric with respect to a measure induced by Liouville Conformal Field Theory. Using the theory of Dirichlet forms, we construct a weak…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Julien Dubédat , Hao Shen

The Ricci flow is a parabolic evolution equation in the space of Riemannian metrics of a smooth manifold. To some extent, Einstein equations give rise to a similar hyperbolic evolution. The present text is an introductory exposition to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-27 Abdelghani Zeghib

In this paper, we consider functionals related to mean curvature flow in an ambient space which evolves by an extended Ricci flow from the perspective introduced by Lott when studying a mean curvature flow in a Ricci flow background. One of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-12 José N. V. Gomes , Matheus Hudson

We introduce a new parabolic flow deforming any Riemannian metric on a spin manifold by following a constrained gradient flow of the total scalar curvature. This flow is built out of the well-known Dirac-Einstein functional. We prove local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Yannick Sire , Tian Xu

In this note we reprove a theorem of Gromov using Ricci flow. The theorem states that a, possibly non-constant, lower bound on the scalar curvature is stable under $C^0$-convergence of the metric.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-04 Richard H Bamler

We study $n$-dimensional Ricci flows with non-negative Ricci curvature where the curvature is pointwise controlled by the scalar curvature and bounded by $C/t$, starting at metric cones which are Reifenberg outside the tip. We show that any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Alix Deruelle , Felix Schulze , Miles Simon