Ricci Flow on Surfaces with Conical Singularities

This paper studies the normalized Ricci flow on surfaces with conical singularities. It’s proved that the normalized Ricci flow has a solution for a short time for initial metrics with conical singularities. Moreover, the solution makes good geometric sense. For some simple surfaces of this kind, for example, the tear drop and the football, it’s shown that they admit a Ricci soliton metric.