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These are detailed notes on Perelman's papers "The entropy formula for the Ricci flow and its geometric applications" and "Ricci flow with surgery on three-manifolds".

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Bruce Kleiner , John Lott

In this note we study conformal Ricci flow introduced by Arthur Fischer. We use DeTurck's trick to rewrite conformal Ricci flow as a strong parabolic-elliptic partial differential equations. Then we prove short time existences for conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-27 Peng Lu , Jie Qing , Yu Zheng

This note illustrates the Ricci flow method based on the Cao.H.D's paper[1] and Yau.S.T's paper[4], and tries to explain the method in detail, especially in some calculations. Jian Song and Weinkove's note[9] used some other estimates to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Liu Chao

We study singularity formation of complete Ricci flow solutions, motivated by two applications: (a) improving the understanding of the behavior of the essential blowup sequences of Enders-Muller-Topping on noncompact manifolds, and (b)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Timothy Carson , James Isenberg , Dan Knopf , Natasa Sesum

We prove that, for a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold, the Ricci flow is obtained by a Wiener process.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-01-30 Marco Frasca

We introduce and study a new general flow of $\mathrm{G}_2$-structures which we call the Ricci-harmonic flow of $\mathrm{G}_2$-structures. The flow is the coupling of the Ricci flow of underlying metrics and the isometric flow of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Shubham Dwivedi

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

In this short note we discuss some recent results about two-positive Ricci curvature and their applications to positive Einstein curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-07 Mohammed Larbi Labbi

This paper defines a parabolic frequency for solutions of the heat equation on a Ricci flow and proves it's monotonicity along the flow. Frequency monotonicity is known to have many useful consequences; here it is shown to provide a simple…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-01 Julius Baldauf , Dain Kim

In the present work we find the Lie point symmetries of the Ricci flow on an $n$-dimensional manifold. and we introduce a method in order to reutilize these symmetries to obtain the Lie point symmetries of particular metrics. We apply this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Enrique López , Stylianos Dimas , Yuri Bozhkov

In this paper, we consider Ricci flows admitting closed and smooth tangent flows in the sense of Bamler [Bam20c]. The tangent flow in question can be either a tangent flow at infinity for an ancient Ricci flow, or a tangent flow at a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Pak-Yeung Chan , Zilu Ma , Yongjia Zhang

In this note we attempt to propose a categorical framework for the Ricci flow, treating it as a sequence of functors connecting the stack of Riemannian metrics to the category of geometric decompositions via singular flow spacetimes. To…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Alexander Plakhotnikov

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 this paper, we investigate the behavior of the normalized Ricci flow on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. We show that the normalized Ricci flow exists globally and converges to an Einstein metric when starting from a non-degenerate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-03 Jie Qing , Yuguang Shi , Jie Wu

In this paper we prove that given a smoothly conformally compact metric there is a short-time solution to the Ricci flow that remains smoothly conformally compact. We adapt recent results of Schn\"urer, Schulze and Simon to prove a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Eric Bahuaud

In this note, we provide a very simple proof of the uniformization theorem of Riemann surfaces by Ricci flow. The argument builds on a refinement of Hamilton's isoperimetric estimate for the Ricci flow on the two-sphere.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Yucheng Ji

Motivated by the recent work of Lamm and Simon, in this work we study the short-time existence theory of Ricci-Deturck flow starting from rough metrics which are bi-Lipschitz and have small local scaling invariant gradient concentration. As…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-18 Jianchun Chu , Man-Chun Lee

We give a short, direct proof that the full holonomy group of a solution to the Ricci flow is invariant up to isomorphism using the invariance of the reduced holonomy under the flow.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Mary Cook , Brett Kotschwar

In this note, we provide some general discussion on the Ricci lower bound along K\"ahler-Ricci flow with singularity over closed manifold.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-28 Zhou Zhang

We consider the volume-normalized Ricci flow close to compact shrinking Ricci solitons. We show that if a compact Ricci soliton $(M,g)$ is a local maximum of Perelman's shrinker entropy, any normalized Ricci flow starting close to it exists…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-29 Klaus Kroencke