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We consider the geodesic flow of a compact connected rank 1 surface. We prove a formula for the topological pressure as the exponential growth rate of rank 1 periodic geodesics generalizing a previous result of K. Gelfert and B. Schapira…

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By applying the theory of group-invariant solutions we investigate the symmetries of Ricci flow and hyperbolic geometric flow both on Riemann surfaces. The warped products on $\mathcal {S}^{n+1}$ of both flows are also studied.

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We consider a generalized Ricci flow with a given (not necessarily closed) three-form and establish the higher derivatives estimates for compact manifolds. As an application, we prove the compactness theorem for this generalized Ricci flow.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-18 Yi Li

We present a new relation between the short time behavior of the heat flow, the geometry of optimal transport and the Ricci flow. We also show how this relation can be used to define an evolution of metrics on non-smooth metric measure…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-30 Nicola Gigli , Carlo Mantegazza

In this paper the authors study the hyperbolic geometric flow on Riemann surfaces. This new nonlinear geometric evolution equation was recently introduced by the first two authors motivated by Einstein equation and Hamilton's Ricci flow. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-09 De-Xing Kong , Kefeng Liu , De-Liang Xu

If we want to deform a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary using Ricci flow, we first need to decide on appropriate boundary conditions. We would like these conditions to reflect the geometric nature of the flow and allow for a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Rasmus Jouttijärvi

We consider a smooth closed surface $M$ of fixed genus $\geqslant 2$ with a Riemannian metric $g$ of negative curvature with fixed total area. The second author has shown that the topological entropy of geodesic flow for $g$ is greater than…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-10-03 Alena Erchenko , Anatole Katok

For an ancient Ricci flow asymptotic to a compact integrable shrinker, or a Ricci flow developing a finite-time singularity modelled on the shrinker, we establish the long-time existence of a harmonic map heat flow between the Ricci flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Kyeongsu Choi , Yi Lai

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

We introduce a new entropy functional for nonnegative solutions of the heat equation on a manifold with time-dependent Riemannian metric. Under certain integral assumptions, we show that this entropy is non-decreasing, and moreover convex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-03 Hongxin Guo , Robert Philipowski , Anton Thalmaier

In this work we give a detailed description of Matthias G\"unther's proof of the Isometric Embedding Theorem of Riemannian manifolds. Subsequently we will use this method to show that it is possible to construct an isometric embedding of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Norman Zergänge

We prove that the geodesic flow for the Weil-Petersson metric on the moduli space of Riemann surfaces is ergodic (in fact Bernoulli) and has finite, positive metric entropy.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-10-12 Keith Burns , Howard Masur , Amie Wilkinson

Using quaternions, we give a concise derivation of the Ricci tensor for homogeneous spaces with topology of the 3-dimensional sphere. We derive explicit and numerical solutions for the Ricci flow PDE and discuss their properties. In the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 István Ozsváth , Engelbert Schücking , Chaney Lin

We prove a so called $\kappa$ non-inflating property for Ricci flow, which provides an upper bound for volume ratio of geodesic balls over Euclidean ones, under an upper bound for scalar curvature. This result can be regarded as the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-11 Qi S. Zhang

In this paper, we establish a framework for the analysis of linear parabolic equations on conical surfaces and use them to study the conical Ricci flow. In particular, we prove the long time existence of the conical Ricci flow for general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Hao Yin

In this paper, we study ergodic optimization of continuous functions for flows by concentrating on the entropy spectrum of their maximizing measures. Precisely, over a wide family of flows with non-uniformly hyperbolic structure, we obtain…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Qiao Liu , Tianyu Wang , Weisheng Wu

In this paper we will give a simple proof of a modification of a result on pseudolocality for the Ricci flow by P.Lu without using the pseudolocality theorem 10.1 of Perelman [P1]. We also obtain an extension of a result of Hamilton on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-10-07 Shu-Yu Hsu

Real world data often lie on low-dimensional Riemannian manifolds embedded in high-dimensional spaces. This motivates learning degenerate normalizing flows that map between the ambient space and a low-dimensional latent space. However, if…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Hanlin Yu , Søren Hauberg , Marcelo Hartmann , Arto Klami , Georgios Arvanitidis

Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian manifold of hyperbolic type, i.e M is a manifold admitting another metric of strictly negative curvature. In this paper we study the geodesic flow restricted to the set of geodesics which are minimal on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-12 Gerhard Knieper , Carlos Ogouyandjou , Jan Philipp Schröder

For homogeneous metrics on the spaces of the title it is shown that the Ricci flow can move a metric of stricly positive sectional curvature to one with some negative sectional curvature and one of positive definite Ricci tensor to one with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-16 Man-Wai Cheung , Nolan R. Wallach