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In this paper, we prove a unique continuation or ``backwards-uniqueness'' theorem for solutions to the Ricci flow. A particular consequence is that the isometry group of a solution cannot expand within the lifetime of the solution.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-29 Brett Kotschwar

We study the asymptotic behavior of the pluriclosed flow in the case of left-invariant Hermitian structures on Lie groups. We prove that solutions on 2-step nilpotent Lie groups and on almost-abelian Lie groups converge, after a suitable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-13 Romina M. Arroyo , Ramiro A. Lafuente

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

Hamilton's pinching conjecture, that three-dimensional complete non-compact manifolds with pinched Ricci curvature are flat, has recently been resolved using Ricci flow. In this paper we prove a direct analogue of that result in all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Alix Deruelle , Man-Chun Lee , Felix Schulze , Miles Simon , Peter M. Topping

We give an application of a Huisken monotonicity-type formula for the mean curvature flow in a compact smooth manifold with a Riemannian metric that evolves by a shrinking self-similar solution of the extended Ricci flow. Our investigation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-25 José N. V. Gomes , Matheus Hudson , Hikaru Yamamoto

We prove long-time existence of the Ricci flow starting from complete manifolds with bounded curvature and scale-invariant integral curvature sufficiently pinched with respect to the inverse of its Sobolev constant. Moreover, if the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Albert Chau , Adam Martens

We introduce a flow of Riemannian metrics over compact manifolds with formal limit at infinite time a shrinking Ricci soliton. We call this flow the Soliton-Ricci flow. It correspond to a Perelman's modified backward Ricci type flow with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-19 Nefton Pali

We study stability of non-compact gradient Kaehler-Ricci flow solitons with positive holomorphic bisectional curvature. Our main result is that any compactly supported perturbation and appropriately decaying perturbations of the Kaehler…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Albert Chau , Oliver C. Schnuerer

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 study time-dependent compactification of extra dimensions. We assume that the spacetime is spatially homogeneous, and solve the vacuum Einstein equations without cosmological constant in more than three dimensions. We consider globally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-14 Yuichiro Sato , Takanao Tsuyuki

We consider dynamical stability for a modified Ricci flow equation whose stationary solutions include Einstein and Ricci soliton metrics. Our focus is on homogeneous metrics on non-compact manifolds. Following the program of Guenther,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-11 Michael Bradford Williams , Haotian Wu

In each dimension $N\geq 3$ and for each real number $\lambda\geq 1$, we construct a family of complete rotationally symmetric solutions to Ricci flow on $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ which encounter a global singularity at a finite time $T$. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Haotian Wu

We introduce a geometric evolution equation for 3-manifolds with sectional curvature of one sign which is in some sense dual to the Ricci flow. On a closed 3-manifold with negative sectional curvature, we establish short time existence and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bennett Chow , Richard Hamilton

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

In a series of papers, Bamler [Bam20a,Bam20b,Bam20c] further developed the high-dimensional theory of Hamilton's Ricci flow to include new monotonicity formulas, a completely general compactness theorem, and a long-sought partial regularity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Pak-Yeung Chan , Bennett Chow , Zilu Ma , Yongjia Zhang

We show that any manifold admitting a non-collapsed, ancient Ricci flow must have finite fundamental group. This generalizes what was known for $\kappa$-solutions in dimensions 2, 3. We furthermore show that this fundamental group must be a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Richard H. Bamler

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 demonstrate that any four-dimensional shrinking Ricci soliton $(\mathcal B \times {\mathbb S^2}, g)$, where $\mathcal B$ is any two-dimensional complete noncompact surface and $g$ is a warped product metric over the base $\mathcal B$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-13 James Isenberg , Dan Knopf , Zilu Ma , Natasa Sesum

We show the existence of a solution to the Ricci flow with a compact length space of bounded curvature, i.e., a space that has curvature bounded above and below in the sense of Alexandrov, as its initial condition. We show that this flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Diego Corro , Masoumeh Zarei , Adam Moreno

We establish effective existence and uniqueness for the heat flow on time-dependent Riemannian manifolds, under minimal assumptions tailored towards the study of Ricci flow through singularities. The main point is that our estimates only…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Beomjun Choi , Jianhui Gao , Robert Haslhofer , Daniel Sigal