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In our previous work [PSSW], we showed that the Ricci flow on S^2 whose initial metric has conical singularities \sum_{j=1}^k \beta_j[p_j] converges to a constant curvature metric with conic singularities (in the stable and semi-stable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-17 D. H. Phong , Jian Song , Jacob Sturm , Xiaowei Wang

In this work we construct and analyze exact solutions describing Ricci flows and nonholonomic deformations of four dimensional (4D) Taub-NUT spacetimes. It is outlined a new geometric techniques of constructing Ricci flow solutions. Some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergiu I. Vacaru , Mihai Visinescu

We study the curve shortening flow on Riemann surfaces with finitely many conformal conical singularities. If the initial curve is passing through the singular points, then the evolution is governed by a degenerate quasilinear parabolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Nikolaos Roidos , Andreas Savas-Halilaj

For any manifold $N^p$ admitting an Einstein metric with positive Einstein constant, we study the behavior of the Ricci flow on high-dimensional products $M = N^p \times S^{q+1}$ with doubly-warped product metrics. In particular, we provide…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Maxwell Stolarski

We construct a class of Riemannian metrics in closed surfaces of genus greater than one, having Anosov geodesic flows, and some regions of positive curvature, such that for each such surface, there exists a smooth curve of conformal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Guilherme Brandão Guglielmo , R. Ruggiero

In their seminal work, Gursky and Malchiodi introduced a non-local conformal flow in dimensions $n \geq 5$ to resolve the constant $Q$-curvature problem. They proved sequential convergence of the flow for initial metrics with positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Liuwei Gong , Sanghoon Lee , Juncheng Wei

Motivated by Luo's combinatorial Yamabe flow on closed surfaces \cite{L1} and Guo's combinatorial Yamabe flow on surfaces with boundary \cite{Guo}, we introduce combinatorial Calabi flow on ideally triangulated surfaces with boundary,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-11 Yanwen Luo , Xu Xu

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

We prove a short time existence result for a system consisting of a geometric evolution equation for a hypersurface and a parabolic equation on this evolving hypersurface. More precisely, we discuss a mean curvature flow scaled with a term…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Helmut Abels , Felicitas Bürger , Harald Garcke

Motivated by the problem of finding constant scalar curvature K\"ahler metrics, we investigate a Ricci iteration sequence of Rubinstein that discretizes the pseudo-Calabi flow. While the long time existence of the flow is still an open…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Kewei Zhang

The conformal flow of metrics [2] has been used to successfully establish a special case of the Penrose inequality, which yields a lower bound for the total mass of a spacetime in terms of horizon area. Here we show how to adapt the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-28 Qing Han , Marcus Khuri

We consider four extended Ricci flow systems---that is, Ricci flow coupled with other geometric flows---and prove dynamical stability of certain classes of stationary solutions of these flows. The systems include Ricci flow coupled with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Michael Bradford Williams

In this paper, we investigate the prescribed total geodesic curvature problem for generalized circle packing metrics in hyperbolic background geometry on surfaces with infinite cellular decompositions. To address this problem, we introduce…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Xinrong Zhao , Puchun Zhou

We introduce certain spherically symmetric singular Ricci solitons and study their stability under the Ricci flow from a dynamical PDE point of view. The solitons in question exist for all dimensions $n+1\ge 3$, and all have a point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-25 Spyros Alexakis , Dezhong Chen , Grigorios Fournodavlos

The principle of convergence stability for geometric flows is the combination of the continuous dependence of the flow on initial conditions, with the stability of fixed points. It implies that if the flow from an initial state $g_0$ exists…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Eric Bahuaud , Christine Guenther , James Isenberg

We use a first-order energy quantity to prove a strengthened statement of uniqueness for the Ricci flow. One consequence of this statement is that if a complete solution on a noncompact manifold has uniformly bounded Ricci curvature, then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-30 Brett Kotschwar

This is the fourth and last part of a series of papers on the long-time behavior of 3 dimensional Ricci flows with surgery. In this paper, we prove our main two results. The first result states that if the surgeries are performed correctly,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Richard H. Bamler

We investigate the conformal geometry of spherically symmetric spacetimes in general without specifying the form of the matter distribution. The general conformal Killing symmetry is obtained subject to a number of integrability conditions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 S. Moopanar , S. D. Maharaj

We obtain the evolution equations for the Riemann tensor, the Ricci tensor and the scalar curvature induced by the mean curvature flow. The evolution for the scalar curvature is similar to the Ricci flow, however, negative, rather than…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-03-12 Victor Tapia

We develop a framework inspired by Lauret's "bracket flow" to study the generalized Ricci flow, as introduced by Streets, on discrete quotients of Lie groups. As a first application, we establish global existence on solvmanifolds in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Elia Fusi , Ramiro A. Lafuente , James Stanfield