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Let $M$ be an $n$-dimensional closed Riemannian manifold with metric $g$, $d\mu=e^{-\phi(x)}d\nu$ be the weighted measure and $\Delta_{p,\phi}$ be the weighted $p$-Laplacian. In this article we will investigate monotonicity for the first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-22 Shahroud Azami

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

The geometry of a ball within a Riemannian manifold is coarsely controlled if it has a lower bound on its Ricci curvature and a positive lower bound on its volume. We prove that such coarse local geometric control must persist for a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-03 Miles Simon , Peter M. Topping

In this article, we prove a local Sobolev inequality for complete Ricci flows. Our main result is that the local $\nu$-functional of a disk on a Ricci flow depends only on the Nash entropy based at the center of the disk, and consequently…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Pak-Yeung Chan , Zilu Ma , Yongjia Zhang

In this note, we discuss the mean curvature flow of graphs of maps between Riemannian manifolds. Special emphasis will be placed on estimates of the flow as a non-linear parabolic system of differential equations. Several global existence…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-05 Mu-Tao Wang

It is the purpose of this article to establish a technical tool to study regularity of solutions to parabolic equations on manifolds. As applications of this technique, we prove that solutions to the Ricci-DeTurck flow, the surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Yuanzhen Shao

In this announcement, we exhibit the second variation of Perelman's $\lambda$ and $\nu$ functionals for the Ricci flow, and investigate the linear stability of examples. We also define the "central density" of a shrinking Ricci soliton and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Huai-Dong Cao , Richard S. Hamilton , Tom Ilmanen

We study the behavior of the normalized Ricci flow of invariant Riemannian homogeneous metrics at infinity for generalized Wallach spaces, generalized flag manifolds with four isotropy summands and second Betti number equal to one, and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Marina Statha

This paper attempts to construct monotonic entropy functionals for four-dimensional Lorentzian spacetime under physical boundary conditions, as an extension of Perelman's monotonic entropy functionals constructed for three-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-17 M. J. Luo

The self-similar solutions to the mean curvature flows have been defined and studied on the Euclidean space. In this paper we initiate a general treatment of the self-similar solutions to the mean curvature flows on Riemannian cone…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-11 Akito Futaki , Kota Hattori , Hikaru Yamamoto

Given a singular Riemannian foliation on a compact Riemannian manifold, we study the mean curvature flow equation with a regular leaf as initial datum. We prove that if the leaves are compact and the mean curvature vector field is basic,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-24 Marcos Alexandrino , Marco Radeschi

In this paper, we study Perelman' s $ \mathcal{W}$ entropy for mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. Analogously to Perelman's $\mathcal{W}$-entropy defined for Ricci flow, K. Ecker in \cite{Ecker07} defined a functional $\mathcal{W}$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Xiang-Dong Li , Qi Yan

For some class of geometric flows, we obtain the (logarithmic) Sobolev inequalities and their equivalence up to different factors directly and also obtain the long time non-collapsing and non-inflated properties, which generalize the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Shouwen Fang , Tao Zheng

In this paper we give an explicit bound of $\Delta_{g(t)}u(t)$ and the local curvature estimates for the Ricci-harmonic flow under the condition that the Ricci curvature is bounded along the flow. In the second part these local curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Yi Li

A new monotone quantity in graphical mean curvature flows of higher codimensions is identified in this work. The submanifold deformed by the mean curvature flow is the graph of a map between Riemannian manifolds, and the quantity is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Chung-Jun Tsai , Mao-Pei Tsui , Mu-Tao Wang

We illustrate the flow or wave character of the metrics and curvatures of evolving manifolds, introducing the Riemann flow and the Riemann wave via the bialternate product Riemannian metric. This kind of evolutions are new and very natural…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-22 Constantin Udriste

Given a solution of the (backwards) Ricci flow one can construct a so called canonical soliton metric on space-time, introduced by E. Cabezas-Rivas and P. Topping. We observe that for a mean curvature flow within a (backwards) Ricci flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-07-31 Sebastian Helmensdorfer

We study deformations of Riemannian metrics on a given manifold equipped with a codimension-one foliation subject to quantities expressed in terms of its second fundamental form. We prove the local existence and uniqueness theorem and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-16 Vladimir Rovenski , Pawel Walczak

This paper concerns conditions related to the first finite singularity time of a Ricci flow solution on a closed manifold. In particular, we provide a systematic approach to the mean value inequality method, suggested by N. Le and F. He. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Xiaodong Cao , Hung Tran

Let $M$ be an even-dimensional, oriented closed manifold. We show that the restriction of a singular Riemannian flow on $M$ to a small tubular neighborhood of each connected component of its singular stratum is foliated-diffeomorphic to an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-28 Igor Prokhorenkov , Ken Richardson