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In this note, we provide some general discussion on the two main versions in the study of Kahler-Ricci flows over closed manifolds, aiming at smooth convergence to the corresponding Kahler-Einstein metrics with assumptions on the volume…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-24 Zhou Zhang

We show that the Kahler-Ricci flow on an algebraic manifold of positive Kodaira dimension and semi-ample canonical line bundle converges to a unique canonical metric on its canonical model. It is also shown that there exists a canonical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-20 Jian Song , Gang Tian

In this paper, we study the Ricci flow on CP1-bundles over a product of K\"ahler-Einstein manifolds whose initial metric is constructed by the ansatz used in works by M. Wang et. al. We prove that the ansatz is preserved along the Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Frederick Tsz-Ho Fong , Hung Tran

Consider the Kahler-Ricci flow with finite time singularities over any closed Kahler manifold. We prove the existence of the flow limit in the sense of current towards the time of singularity. This answers affirmatively a problem raised by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Zhou Zhang

We first prove a uniform integral Laplace comparison result for the K\"ahler Ricci flow on Fano manifolds which depends only on the initial metric. As an application, using Cheeger-Colding theory and previous results by some of the authors,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Gang Tian , Qi S. Zhang , Zhenlei Zhang , Meng Zhu , Xiaohua Zhu

We investigate the limiting behavior of the unnormalized Kahler-Ricci flow on a Kahler manifold with a polarized initial Kahler metric. We prove that the Kahler-Ricci flow becomes extinct in finite time if and only if the manifold has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-08 Jian Song

We study the K\"ahler-Ricci flow on compact K\"ahler manifolds whose canonical bundle is big. We show that the normalized K\"ahler-Ricci flow has long time existence in the viscosity sense, is continuous in a Zariski open set, and converges…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Tat Dat Tô

We show that on smooth minimal surfaces of general type, the K\"ahler-Ricci flow starting at any initial K\"ahler metric converges in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense to a K\"ahler-Einstein orbifold surface. In particular, the diameter of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Bin Guo , Jian Song , Ben Weinkove

We investigate the metric behavior of the Kahler-Ricci flow on the Hirzebruch surfaces, assuming the initial metric is invariant under a maximal compact subgroup of the automorphism group. We show that, in the sense of Gromov-Hausdorff, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Jian Song , Ben Weinkove

We first give a precise statement on the short time existence of the Calabi flow and prove a stability result: any metric near a constant scalar curvature metric will flow to this cscK metric exponentially fast. Secondly, we prove that a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Xiuxiong Chen , Weiyong He

We consider the K\"ahler-Ricci flow on compact K\"ahler manifolds with semiample canonical bundle and intermediate Kodaira dimension, and show that the flow collapses to a canonical metric on the base of the Iitaka fibration in the locally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Hans-Joachim Hein , Man-Chun Lee , Valentino Tosatti

In this paper, we establish several sufficient and necessary conditions for the convergence of a K\"ahler-Ricci flow, on a K\"ahler manifold with positive first Chern class, to a K\"ahler-Einstein metric (or a shrinking K\"ahler-Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-11-09 Zhenlei Zhang

For the K\"ahler-Ricci flow on a compact K\"ahler manifold with semi-ample canonical line bundle, we prove the singularity type at infinity does not depend on the choice of the initial metric. We also provide new simple proofs for some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Yashan Zhang

It is well known that the K\"ahler-Ricci flow on a K\"ahler manifold $X$ admits a long-time solution if and only if $X$ is a minimal model, i.e., the canonical line bundle $K_X$ is nef. The abundance conjecture in algebraic geometry…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Wangjian Jian , Jian Song

In this paper we prove convergence and compactness results for Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature and entropy. More specifically, we show that Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature converge smoothly away from a singular set of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-08 Richard H. Bamler

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

In this paper, we study the (normalized) Ricci flow on surfaces with conical singularities. Long time existence is proved for cone angle smaller than $2\pi$. In this case, convergence results are obtained if the Euler number is nonpositive.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Hao Yin

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

In this paper, we first prove a folklore conjecture on a greatest lower bound of the Calabi energy in all K\"ahler manifold. Similar result in algebriac setting was obtained by S. K. Donaldson. Secondly, we give an upper/lower bound…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 X. X. Chen

In this note, we prove that on an $n$-dimensional compact toric manifold with positive first Chern class, the K\"ahler-Ricci flow with any initial $(S^1)^n$-invariant K\"ahler metric converges to a K\"ahler-Ricci soliton. In particular, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xiaohua Zhu