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The present paper is devoted to the study a global aspect of the geometry of harmonic mappings and, in particular, infinitesimal harmonic transformations, and represents the application of our results to the theory of Ricci solutions and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Sergey Stepanov , Irina Aleksandrova , Irina Tsyganok

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

This paper shows for the first time the existence of a Ricci flow with surgery with local topology change \mathbb{CP}^2\setminus\{ \mathrm{pt}\} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^4. The post surgery flow converges to the Taub-NUT metric on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-20 John Hughes

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

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

Ricci flow on two dimensional surfaces is far simpler than in the higher dimensional cases. This presents an opportunity to obtain much more detailed and comprehensive results. We review the basic facts about this flow, including the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-25 James Isenberg , Rafe Mazzeo , Natasa Sesum

For any toric automorphism with only real eigenvalues a Riemannian metric with an integrable geodesic flow on the suspension of this automorphism is constructed. A qualitative analysis of such a flow on a three-solvmanifold constructed by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. V. Bolsinov , I. A. Taimanov

We localize the entropy functionals of G. Perelman and generalize his no-local-collapsing theorem and pseudo-locality theorem. Our generalization is technically inspired by further development of Li-Yau estimates along the Ricci flow. It…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Bing Wang

In this paper, we first introduce the weighted forward reduced volume of Ricci flow. The weighted forward reduced volume, which related to expanders of Ricci flow, is well-defined on noncompact manifolds and monotone non-increasing under…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-21 Liang Cheng , Anqiang Zhu

In this note, we want to establish several formulas about functionals along harmonic Ricci flow on surface with boundary

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Xiang-Zhi Cao

In this note we clarify that the Rcci flow can be used to give an independent proof of the uniformization theorem of Riemann surfaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xiuxiong Chen , Peng Lu , Gang Tian

The stability of a recently developed piecewise flat Ricci flow is investigated, using a linear stability analysis and numerical simulations, and a class of piecewise flat approximations of smooth manifolds is adapted to avoid an inherent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Rory Conboye

In this paper we study a boundary value problem for the Ricci flow in the two dimensional ball endowed with a rotationally symmetric metric. We show short and long time existence results. We construct families of metrics for which the flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean Cortissoz

This paper studies the Ricci flow on closed manifolds admitting harmonic spinors. It is shown that Perelman's Ricci flow entropy can be expressed in terms of the energy of harmonic spinors in all dimensions, and in four dimensions, in terms…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Julius Baldauf

Ancient solutions arise in the study of Ricci flow singularities. Motivated by the work of Fateev on 3-dimensional ancient solutions we construct high dimensional ancient solutions to Ricci flow on spheres and complex projective spaces as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-14 Ioannis Bakas , Shengli Kong , Lei Ni

The geometric evolution equations provide new ways to address a variety of non-linear problems in Riemannian geometry, and, at the same time, they enjoy numerous physical applications, most notably within the renormalization group analysis…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Bakas

Identifying any conformally round metric on the $2$-sphere with a unique cross section on the standard lightcone in the $3+1$-Minkowski spacetime, we gain a new perspective on $2d$-Ricci flow on topological spheres. It turns out that in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Markus Wolff

We show that the analog of Hamilton's Ricci flow in the combinatorial setting produces solutions which converge exponentially fast to Thurston's circle packing on surfaces. As a consequence, a new proof of Thurston's existence of circle…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bennett Chow , Feng Luo

This project serves to analyze the behavior of Ricci Flow in five dimensional manifolds. Ricci Flow was introduced by Richard Hamilton in 1982 and was an essential tool in proving the Geometrization and Poincare Conjectures. In general,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Amanda Hirschmann , Thomas Bell
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