The Ricci flow as a geodesic on the manifold of Riemannian metrics

The Ricci flow is an evolution equation in the space of Riemannian metrics.A solution for this equation is a curve on the manifold of Riemannian metrics. In this paper we introduce a metric on the manifold of Riemannian metrics such that the Ricci flow becomes a geodesic.We show that the Ricci solitons introduce a special slice on the manifold of Riemannian metrics.     

Spectral gap on Riemannian path space over static and evolving manifolds

In this article, we continue the discussion of Fang–Wu (2015) to estimate the spectral gap of the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck operator on path space over a Riemannian manifold of pinched Ricci curvature. Along with explicit estimates we study the short-time asymptotics of the spectral gap. The results are then extended to the path space of Riemannian manifolds evolving under a geometric flow. Our paper is strongly motivated by Naber's recent work (2015) on characterizing bounded Ricci curvature through stochastic analysis on path space.     

New geometric flows on Riemannian manifolds and applications to Schrödinger-Airy flows

In this paper,a class of new geometric flows on a complete Riemannian manifold is defined. The new flow is related to the generalized(third order) Landau-Lifshitz equation. On the other hand it could be thought of as a special case of the Schr¨odinger-Airy flow when the target manifold is a K¨ahler manifold with constant holomorphic sectional curvature. We show the local existence of the new flow on a complete Riemannian manifold with some assumptions on Ricci tensor. Moreover,if the target manifolds are Einstein or some certain type of locally symmetric spaces,the global results are obtained.     

A Bound of the Finslerian Ricci Scalar

In the Riemannian as well as in the Finslerian geometry, certain conditions on the Ricci scalar or the Ricci tensor provide obstructions on the topology of the base manifold and so on the configuration of cut points by limitations of the injectivity radius, see the Bonnet–Myers theorem and its variants and generalizations. In this paper, we show that conversely, prescribing the injectivity radius of a Finsler manifold, some limitations of the Ricci scalar are obtained. Some consequences of the condition that the Ricci tensor is h-parallel with respect to the Chern–Rund connection are found. In addition, some classes of examples are provided.     

On the moment-angle manifolds of positive Ricci curvature

We construct Riemannian metrics of positive Ricci curvature on some moment-angle manifolds. In particular, we construct a nonformal moment-angle Riemannian manifold of positive Ricci curvature.     

Evolution of the first eigenvalue of the clamped plate on manifold along the Ricci flow

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In this article, we study the evolution, monotonicity for the first eigenvalue of the clamped plate on closed Riemannian manifold along the Ricci flow. We prove that the first nonzero eigenvalue is nondecreasing under the Ricci flow under certain geometric conditions and find some applications in 2-dimensional manifolds.     

The entropy formula for linear heat equation

We derive the entropy formula for the linear heat equation on general Riemannian manifolds and prove that it is monotone non-increasing on manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. As applications, we study the relation between the value of entropy and the volume of balls of various scales. The results are simpler version, without Ricci flow, of Perelman ’s recent results on volume non-collapsing for Ricci flow on compact manifolds. We also prove that if the entropy for the heat kernel achieves its maximum value zero at some positive time, on any complete Riamannian manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature, if and only if the manifold is isometric to the Euclidean space.     

Eigenvalue problems on Riemannian manifolds with a modified Ricci tensor

In this paper, we study the eigenvalue problems on a Riemannian manifold with a modified Ricci tensor. We obtain some sharp lower bound estimates for the first eigenvalue of Laplacian. We also prove some rigidity theorems for the Riemannian manifold with some suitable conditions.     

Periodic orbits in magnetic fields and Ricci curvature of Lagrangian systems

A Lagrangian system describing a motion of a charged particle on a Riemannian manifold is studied. For this flow an analog of a Ricci curvature is introduced, and for Ricci positively curved flows the existence of periodic orbits is proved.

     

Some Gradient Estimates and Liouville Properties of the Fast Diffusion Equation on Riemannian Manifolds*

In the paper, the authors provide a new proof and derive some new elliptic type (Hamilton type) gradient estimates for fast diffusion equations on a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold with a fixed metric and along the Ricci flow by constructing a new auxiliary function. These results generalize earlier results in the literature. And some parabolic type Liouville theorems for ancient solutions are obtained.     

Rigidity and sphere theorem for manifolds with positive Ricci curvature

LetM be a complete Riemannian manifold with Ricci curvature having a positive lower bound. In this paper, we prove some rigidity theorems forM by the existence of a nice minimal hypersurface and a sphere theorem aboutM. We also generalize a Myers theorem stating that there is no closed immersed minimal submanifolds in an open hemisphere to the case that the ambient space is a complete Riemannian manifold withk-th Ricci curvature having a positive lower bound. Supported by the JSPS postdoctoral fellowship and NSF of China     

Line integration of Ricci curvature and conjugate points in Lorentzian and Riemannian manifolds

Generalizing results of Cohn-Vossen and Gromoll, Meyer for Riemannian manifolds and Hawking and Penrose for Lorentzian manifolds, we use Morse index theory techniques to show that if the integral of the Ricci curvature of the tangent vector field of a complete geodesic in a Riemannian manifold or of a complete nonspacelike geodesic in a Lorentzian manifold is positive, then the geodesic contains a pair of conjugate points. Applications are given to geodesic incompleteness theorems for Lorentzian manifolds, the end structure of complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds, and the geodesic flow of compact Riemannian manifolds.Partially supported by NSF grant MCS77-18723(02).     

Displacement interpolations from a Hamiltonian point of view

One of the most well-known results in the theory of optimal transportation is the equivalence between the convexity of the entropy functional with respect to the Riemannian Wasserstein metric and the Ricci curvature lower bound of the underlying Riemannian manifold. There are also generalizations of this result to the Finsler manifolds and manifolds with a Ricci flow background. In this paper, we study displacement interpolations from the point of view of Hamiltonian systems and give a unifying approach to the above mentioned results.     

非负Ricci曲率开流形的拓扑

我们证明了对于具有非负Rieei曲率,大体积增长且内半径下有界的完备n维Riemann流形,只要存在常数C>0使得 则它微分同胚于欧式空间Rn.我们还证明了在某些pinching条件下具有非负射线曲率的完备n维Riemarm流形微分同胚与Rn,改进了已知的结果.     

The Ricci flow in a class of solvmanifolds

In this paper, we study the Ricci flow of solvmanifolds whose Lie algebra has an abelian ideal of codimension one, by using the bracket flow. We prove that solutions to the Ricci flow are immortal, the ω-limit of bracket flow solutions is a single point, and that for any sequence of times there exists a subsequence in which the Ricci flow converges, in the pointed topology, to a manifold which is locally isometric to a flat manifold. We give a functional which is non-increasing along a normalized bracket flow that will allow us to prove that given a sequence of times, one can extract a subsequence converging to an algebraic soliton, and to determine which of these limits are flat. Finally, we use these results to prove that if a Lie group in this class admits a Riemannian metric of negative sectional curvature, then the curvature of any Ricci flow solution will become negative in finite time.     

Geometry of tubes about characteristic curves on Sasakian manifolds

One studies, using Riemannian foliation theory, some aspects of the intrinsic and extrinsic geometry of small tubes about the flow lines of the characteristic vector field on a Sasakian manifold. In particular, one focuses on some characteristic properties of the shape operator and the Ricci operator of these tubes for the classes of ?-symmetric spaces and Sasakian space forms.     

Sobolev type inequalities on Riemannian manifolds

This paper studies Sobolev type inequalities on Riemannian manifolds. We show that on a complete non-compact Riemannian manifold the constant in the Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality cannot be smaller than the optimal one on the Euclidean space of the same dimension. We also show that a complete non-compact manifold with asymptotically non-negative Ricci curvature admitting some Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality is not very far from the Euclidean space.     

Some geometric properties of the Bakry-Émery-Ricci tensor

The Bakry-Émery tensor gives an analog of the Ricci tensor for a Riemannian manifold with a smooth measure. We show that some of the topological consequences of having a positive or nonnegative Ricci tensor are also valid for the Bakry-Émery tensor. We show that the Bakry-Émery tensor is nondecreasing under a Riemannian submersion whose fiber transport preserves measures up to constants. We give some relations between the Bakry-Émery tensor and measured Gromov-Hausdorff limits.     

ON THE FUNDAMENTAL GROUP OF OPEN MANIFOLDS WITH NONNEGATIVE RICCI CURVATURE＊＊＊＊

The authors establish some uniform estimates for the distance to halfway points of minimal geodesics in terms of the distantce to end points on some types of Riemannian manifolds, and then prove some theorems about the finite generation of fundamental group of Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature, which support the famous Milnor conjecture.     

Three-dimensional semi-symmetric homogeneous Lorentzian manifolds

Because of the different possible forms (Segre types) of the Ricci operator, semi-symmetry assumption for the curvature of a Lorentzian manifold turns out to have very different consequences with respect to the Riemannian case. In fact, a semi-symmetric homogeneous Riemannian manifold is necessarily symmetric, while we find some three-dimensional homogeneous Lorentzian manifolds which are semi-symmetric but not symmetric. The complete classification of three-dimensional semi-symmetric homogeneous Lorentzian manifolds is obtained.