A combinatorial Yamabe flow in three dimensions

A combinatorial version of Yamabe flow is presented based on Euclidean triangulations coming from sphere packings. The evolution of curvature is then derived and shown to satisfy a heat equation. The Laplacian in the heat equation is shown to be a geometric analogue of the Laplacian of Riemannian geometry, although the maximum principle need not hold. It is then shown that if the flow is nonsingular, the flow converges to a constant curvature metric.     

Riemannian Foliations and Eigenvalue Comparison

Eigenvalue comparison theorems for the Laplacian on a Riemannian manifold generally give bounds for the first Dirichlet eigenvalue on balls in the manifold in terms of an eigenvalue arising from a geometrically or analytically simpler situation. Cheng's eigenvalue comparison theory assumes bounds on the curvature of the manifold and then compares this eigenvalue to the eigenvalue of a ball in a constant curvature space form. In this paper we examine the basic Laplacian – the appropriate Laplacian on functions that are constant on the leaves of the foliation. The main theorems generalize Cheng's eigenvalue comparison theorem and other eigenvalue comparison theorems to the category of Riemannian foliations by estimating the first Dirichlet eigenvalue for the basic Laplacian on a metric tubular neighborhood of a leaf closure. Several other facts about the the first eigenvalue of such foliated tubes as well as some needed facts about the tubes themselves are established. This comparison theory, like Cheng's theorem, remains valid for large tubes that are not homotopic to the middle leaf closure and that may have irregular boundaries. We apply these results to obtain upper bounds for the eigenvalues of the basic Laplacian on a closed manifold in terms of curvature bounds and the transverse diameter of the foliation.     

The Ricci flow on the two ball with a rotationally symmetric metric

In this paper we study a boundary-value problem for the Ricci flow in the two-dimensional ball endowed with a rotationally symmetric metric of positive Gaussian curvature and prove short and long time existence results. We construct families of metrics for which the flow uniformizes the curvature along a sequence of times. Finally, we show that if the initial metric has positive Gaussian curvature and the boundary has positive geodesic curvature then the flow uniformizes the curvature along a sequence of times. The text was submitted by the author in English.     

New Characterizations of Compact Totally Umbilical Spacelike Surfaces in 4-Dimensional Lorentz–Minkowski Spacetime Through a Lightcone

On each spacelike surface through the lightcone in 4-dimensional Lorentz–Minkowski spacetime, there exists an Artinian normal frame which contains the position vector field. In this way, a (globally defined) lightlike normal vector field, with nontrivial extrinsic meaning, is chosen on the surface. When the second fundamental form respect to that normal direction is non-degenerate, a new formula which relates the Gauss curvature of the induced metric and the Gauss curvature of this normal metric is obtained. Then, the totally umbilical round spheres are characterized as the only compact spacelike surfaces through the lightcone whose normal metric has constant Gauss curvature two. Such surfaces are also distinguished in terms of the Gauss–Kronecker curvature of that lightlike normal direction, of the area of the normal metric and of the first non-trivial eigenvalue of the Laplacian of the induced metric.     

Curvature bounds by isoperimetric comparison for normalized Ricci flow on the two-sphere

We prove a comparison theorem for the isoperimetric profiles of solutions of the normalized Ricci flow on the two-sphere: If the isoperimetric profile of the initial metric is greater than that of some positively curved axisymmetric metric, then the inequality remains true for the isoperimetric profiles of the evolved metrics. We apply this using the Rosenau solution as the model metric to deduce sharp time-dependent curvature bounds for arbitrary solutions of the normalized Ricci flow on the two-sphere. This gives a simple and direct proof of convergence to a constant curvature metric without use of any blowup or compactness arguments, Harnack estimates, or any classification of behaviour near singularities.     

The Problem of Eigenvalue on Noncompact Complete Riemannian Manifold

Let M be an n-dimensional noncompact complete Riemannian manifold, "Δ" is the Laplacian of M. It is a negative selfadjoint operator in L²(M). First, we give a criterion of non-existence of eigenvalue by the heat kernel. Applying the criterion yields that the Laplacian on noncompact constant curvature space form has no eigenvalue. Then, we give a geometric condition of M under which the Laplacian of M has eigenvalues. It implies that changing the metric on a compact domain of constant negative curvature space form may yield eigenvalues.     

First eigenvalues of geometric operators under the Yamabe flow

Suppose \((M,g_0)\) is a compact Riemannian manifold without boundary of dimension \(n\ge 3\). Using the Yamabe flow, we obtain estimate for the first nonzero eigenvalue of the Laplacian of \(g_0\) with negative scalar curvature in terms of the Yamabe metric in its conformal class. On the other hand, we prove that the first eigenvalue of some geometric operators on a compact Riemannian manifold is nondecreasing along the unnormalized Yamabe flow under suitable curvature assumption. Similar results are obtained for manifolds with boundary and for CR manifold.     

Ricci flow on Kähler manifolds

In this Note, we announce the result that if M is a Kähler–Einstein manifold with positive scalar curvature, if the initial metric has nonnegative bisectional curvature, and the curvature is positive somewhere, then the Kähler–Ricci flow converges to a Kähler–Einstein metric with constant bisectional curvature.     

Ricci flow on Kähler-Einstein surfaces

In this paper, we prove that if M is a K?hler-Einstein surface with positive scalar curvature, if the initial metric has nonnegative sectional curvature, and the curvature is positive somewhere, then the K?hler-Ricci flow converges to a K?hler-Einstein metric with constant bisectional curvature. In a subsequent paper [7], we prove the same result for general K?hler-Einstein manifolds in all dimension. This gives an affirmative answer to a long standing problem in K?hler Ricci flow: On a compact K?hler-Einstein manifold, does the K?hler-Ricci flow converge to a K?hler-Einstein metric if the initial metric has a positive bisectional curvature? Our main method is to find a set of new functionals which are essentially decreasing under the K?hler Ricci flow while they have uniform lower bounds. This property gives the crucial estimate we need to tackle this problem. Oblatum 8-IX-2000 & 30-VII-2001?Published online: 19 November 2001     

Concentration, Ricci Curvature, and Eigenvalues of Laplacian

In this paper we study the concentration behavior of metric measure spaces. We prove the stability of the curvature-dimension condition with respect to the concentration topology due to Gromov. As an application, under the nonnegativity of Bakry–Émery Ricci curvature, we prove that the kth eigenvalue of the weighted Laplacian of a closed Riemannian manifold is dominated by a constant multiple of the first eigenvalue, where the constant depends only on k and is independent of the dimension of the manifold.     

Conformal entropy rigidity through Yamabe flows

We introduce two versions of the Yamabe flow which preserve negative scalar-curvature bounds. First we show existence and smooth convergence of solutions to these flows. We then show that a metric with negative scalar curvature is controlled by the Yamabe metrics in the same conformal class with constant extremal scalar curvatures. This implies that the volume entropy of our original metric is controlled by the entropies of these Yamabe metrics. We eventually use these Yamabe flows to prove an entropy-rigidity result: when the Yamabe metric has negative sectional curvature, the entropy of a metric in the same conformal class is extremal if and only if the metric has constant extremal scalar curvature.     

A Class of Conformally flat Contact Metric 3-Manifolds

It is shown that a conformally flat contact metric 3-manifold with Ricci curvature vanishing along the characteristic vector field, has non-positive scalar curvature. Such a manifold is flat if (i) it is compact, or (ii) the scalar curvature is constant, or (iii) the norm of the Ricci tensor is constant.     

The Calabi flow on Kähler Surfaces with bounded Sobolev constant (I)

We consider the formation of singularities along the Calabi flow by assuming the uniformly bounded Sobolev constants. On Kähler surfaces we prove that if curvature tensor is not uniformly bounded, then one can form a singular model called deepest bubble; such deepest bubble has to be a scalar flat ALE Kähler metric. In certain Kähler classes on toric Fano surfaces, the Sobolev constants are a priori bounded along the Calabi flow with small Calabi energy. We can also show in certain cases no deepest bubble can form along the flow. It follows that the curvature tensor is uniformly bounded and the flow exists for all time and converges to an extremal metric subsequently. To illustrate our results more clearly, we focus on an example on \({\mathbb{CP}^2}\) blown up three points at generic position. Our result also implies existence of constant scalar curvature metrics on \({\mathbb{CP}^2}\) blown up three points at generic position in the Kähler classes where the exceptional divisors have the same area.     

常数平均曲率子流形的曲率估计及其应用

本文利用活动标架法及Ｌａｐｌａｃｉａｎ特征值方法研究了空间形中具有常数平均曲率的子流形，给出了高斯曲率与数量曲率的一种估计方法，证明了空间形中具有常数平均曲率的子流形上一个单连通有界区域为稳定的两个充分条件．     

An optimal parabolic estimate and its applications in prescribing scalar curvature on some open manifolds with Ricci \ge 0

By establishing an optimal comparison result on the heat kernel of the conformal Laplacian on open manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature, (a) we show that many manifolds with positive scalar curvature do not possess conformal metrics with scalar curvature bounded below by a positive constant; (b) we identify a class of functions with the following property: If the manifold has a scalar curvature in this class, then there exists a complete conformal metric whose scalar curvature is any given function in this class. This class is optimal in some sense; (c) we have identified all manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature, which are “uniformly” conformal to manifolds with zero scalar curvature. Even in the Euclidean case, we obtain a necessary and sufficient condition under which the main existence results in [Ni1] and [KN] on prescribing nonnegative scalar curvature will hold. This condition had been sought in several papers in the last two decades. Received: 11 November 1998 / Revised: 7 April 1999     

Ricci-Bourguignon Flow on Manifolds with Boundary

The authors consider the short time existence for Ricci-Bourguignon flow on manifolds with boundary. If the initial metric has constant mean curvature and satisfies some compatibility conditions, they show the short time existence of the Ricci-Bourguignon flow with constant mean curvature on the boundary.     

Discrete quasi-Einstein metrics and combinatorial curvature flows in 3-dimension

Motivated by the definition of combinatorial scalar curvature given by Cooper and Rivin, we introduce a new combinatorial scalar curvature. Then we define the discrete quasi-Einstein metric, which is a combinatorial analogue of the constant scalar curvature metric in smooth case. We find that discrete quasi-Einstein metric is critical point of both the combinatorial Yamabe functional and the quadratic energy functional we defined on triangulated 3-manifolds. We introduce combinatorial curvature flows, including a new type of combinatorial Yamabe flow, to study the discrete quasi-Einstein metrics and prove that the flows produce solutions converging to discrete quasi-Einstein metrics if the initial normalized quadratic energy is small enough. As a corollary, we prove that nonsingular solution of the combinatorial Yamabe flow with nonpositive initial curvatures converges to discrete quasi-Einstein metric. The proof relies on a careful analysis of the discrete dual-Laplacian, which we interpret as the Jacobian matrix of curvature map.     

The Ricci Flow with Metric Torsion on Closed Surfaces

The famous Uniformization Theorem states that on closed Riemannian surfaces there always exists a metric of constant curvature for the Levi-Civita connection. In this article, we prove that an analogue of the uniformization theorem also holds for connections with metric torsion in the case of non-positive Euler characteristic. Our main tool is an adapted form of the Ricci flow.     

The hypoelliptic Laplacian,analytic torsion and Cheeger–Müller Theorem

The purpose of this Note is to prove a formula relating the hypoelliptic Ray–Singer metric and the Milnor metric on the determinant of the cohomology of a compact Riemannian manifold by a Witten-like deformation of the hypoelliptic Laplacian in de Rham theory.     

Sharp lower bounds for the first eigenvalues of the bi-drifting Laplacian

In the present paper we study some kinds of the problems for the bi-drifting Laplacian operator and get some sharp lower bounds for the first eigenvalue for these eigenvalue problems on compact manifolds with boundary (also called a smooth metric measure space) and weighted Ricci curvature bounded inferiorly.