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The paper studies flow lines on Higgs bundle moduli spaces, classifying them via secant varieties.

Model for associative submanifolds in K3 fibrations.

The paper connects two clustering methods by showing gradient ascent flow can move up the cluster tree.

The paper proves compactness for holomorphic curves with boundary on nearby Lagrangians.

We use the Yang-Mills gradient flow on the space of connections over a closed Riemann surface to construct a Morse-Bott chain complex. The chain groups are generated by Yang-Mills connections. The boundary operator is defined by counting the elements of appropriately defined moduli spaces of Yang-Mills gradient flow li…

Notes on Morse Homology, focusing on gradient flow lines and semi-infinite dimensional cases.

We show that under suitable non-degeneracy conditions, complete gradient flow lines of the scalar curvature functional of a riemannian manifold perturb into eternal forced mean curvature flows with large forcing term.

Straight lines are a basin of attraction for the elastic flow at least to level 1.9615π.

The paper explores the correspondence between gradient flow lines of a function and its Lagrange multiplier functional.

The works of Donaldson and Mark make the structure of the Seiberg-Witten invariant of 3-manifolds clear. It corresponds to certain torsion type invariants counting flow lines and closed orbits of a gradient flow of a circle-valued Morse map on a 3-manifold. We study these invariants using the Morse-Novikov theory and H…

We derive general Novikov-Morse type inequalities in a Conley type framework for flows carrying cocycles, therefore generalizing our results in [FJ2] derived for integral cocycle. The condition of carrying a cocycle expresses the nontriviality of integrals of that cocycle on flow lines. Gradient-like flows are distingu…

Proves Arnold-Thom conjecture for surfaces' arrival times.

In this paper we introduce a new geometric flow --- the hyperbolic gradient flow for graphs in the $(n+1)$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. This kind of flow is new and very natural to understand the geometry of manifolds. We particularly investigate the global existence of the evolution of convex hypers…

Near a birth-death critical point in a one-parameter family of gradient flows, there are precisely two Morse critical points of index difference one on the birth side. This paper gives a self-contained proof of the folklore theorem that these two critical points are joined by a unique gradient trajectory up to time-shi…

We illustrate an example of a generic, positive function K on a Riemannian manifold to be conformally prescribed as the scalar curvature, for which the corresponding Yamabe type L2-gradient flow exhibits non compact flow lines, while a slight modification of it is compact.

We study the gradient flow lines of a Yang-Mills-type functional on the space of gauged holomorphic maps $\mathcal{H}(P,X)$, where $P$ is a principal bundle on a Riemann surface $Σ$ and $X$ is a Kähler Hamiltonian $G$-manifold. For compact $Σ$, possibly with boundary, we prove long time existence of the gradient flow. …

Given a smooth closed manifold M, the Morse-Witten complex associated to a Morse function f and a Riemannian metric g on M consists of chain groups generated by the critical points of f and a boundary operator counting isolated flow lines of the negative gradient flow. Its homology reproduces singular homology of M. Th…

Study of geometric analysis on asymmetric metric spaces, including heat flow and Sobolev spaces.

Characterizes corridors in loss surfaces for gradient-based optimization.

The paper develops statistical inference for gradient flows in optimization.

In this paper, we investigate the Seiberg-Witten gauge theory for Seifert fibered spaces. The monopoles over these three-manifolds, for a particular choice of metric and perturbation, are completely described. Gradient flow lines between monopoles are identified with holomorphic data on an associated ruled surface, and…

The paper studies convex cocompact structures using Weil-Petersson flow.

Introduces a Morse complex on symplectic manifolds using gradient flows and proves its cohomology is independent of metrics and Morse functions.

Defines a volume functional for Hermitian connections on manifolds, proving its properties and connections.

In this paper we prove a conjecture by Feldman-Ilmanen-Knopf in \cite{FIK} that the gradient shrinking soliton metric they constructed on the tautological line bundle over $\CP^1$ is the uniform limit of blow-ups of a type I Ricci flow singularity on a closed manifold. We use this result to show that limits of blow-ups…

This paper proves some results on negative gradient dynamics of Morse functions on Hilbert manifolds. It contains the compactness of flow lines, manifold structures of certain compacti- fied moduli spaces, orientation formulas, and CW structures of the underlying manifolds.

Toda flow explained as a porous medium equation.

Let $f$ be a Morse function on a closed manifold $M$, and $v$ be a Riemannian gradient of $f$ satisfying the transversality condition. The classical construction (due to Morse, Smale, Thom, Witten), based on the counting of flow lines joining critical points of the function $f$ associates to these data the Morse comple…

Local gluing connects flow lines in finite time intervals.

The paper analyzes flows related to Higgs energies on manifolds.

Study links Hopf differentials to curvature line flows on time-like CMC surfaces.

Study shows overparameterization helps shallow neural networks recover signals in high dimensions.

Holomorphic cylinders converge to disks joined by flow lines.

We construct a deformed Morse complex computing the equivariant cohomology of a manifold M endowed with a smooth S^1-action. The deformation of the coboundary operator is given by counting gradient flow lines of a Morse function f that are allowed to "jump" along orbits of the S^1-action for finite time intervalls.

In this paper, we study the line bundle mean curvature flow defined by Jacob and Yau. The line bundle mean curvature flow is a kind of parabolic flows to obtain deformed Hermitian Yang-Mills metrics on a given Kähler manifold. The goal of this paper is to give an $\varepsilon$-regularity theorem for the line bundle mea…

Entropy measures geodesic flow complexity.

Constructs flow lines connecting unstable to stable self-expanders.

The paper describes flows of MMD functionals with distance kernel and quantile functions.

New flow for Yang-Mills-Higgs theory avoids singularities.

Let $f:M \to \mathbb{R}$ be a Morse-Bott function on a compact smooth finite dimensional manifold $M$. The polynomial Morse inequalities and an explicit perturbation of $f$ defined using Morse functions $f_j$ on the critical submanifolds $C_j$ of $f$ show immediately that $MB_t(f) = P_t(M) + (1+t)R(t)$, where $MB_t(f)$…

Let $(X,ω)$ be a compact Kähler manifold of complex dimension $n$ and $(L,h)$ be a holomorphic line bundle over $X$. The line bundle mean curvature flow was introduced in \cite{JY} in order to find deformed Hermitian-Yang-Mills metrics on $L$. In this paper, we consider the stability of the line bundle mean curvature f…

Study on straight-line flows for generative modeling with theoretical obstructions.

Rabinowitz Floer homology is the semi-infinite dimensional Morse homology associated to the Rabinowitz action functional used in the pioneering work of Rabinowitz. Gradient flow lines are solutions of a vortex-like equation. In this survey article we describe the construction of Rabinowitz Floer homology and its applic…

We construct gradient Kähler-Ricci solitons on Ricci-flat Kähler cone manifolds and on line bundles over toric Fano manifolds. Certain shrinking and expanding solitons are pasted together to form eternal solutions of the Ricci flow. The method we employ is the Calabi ansatz over Sasaki-Einstein manifolds, and the resul…

The study identifies unique fluid flow patterns.

We study the problem of prescribing the Paneitz curvature on higher dimensional spheres. Particular attention is paid to the blow-up points, i.e. the critical points at infinity of the corresponding variational problem. Using topological tools and a careful analysis of the gradient flow lines in the neighborhood of suc…

The study characterizes straight-line flows in dynamic measure transport.

In this paper we investigate the convergence properties of the upwards gradient flow of the norm-square of a moment map on the space of representations of a quiver. The first main result gives a necessary and sufficient algebraic criterion for a complex group orbit to intersect the unstable set of a given critical poin…