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Proves Hamilton's theorem using mean curvature flow.

Paper confirms Hamilton-Tian conjecture for specific Sasakian manifolds.

Study describes how compact Ricci solitons degenerate as cone angles approach zero.

The paper proves estimates for a specific flow on compact manifolds.

The article proves a new entropy formula for surfaces with boundaries.

The abstract discusses compactness of manifolds with pinched Ricci curvature.

Compactness theorem for manifolds with boundary proved.

Kuranishi's proof of complex deformation theory revisited

Compactness results for Hermitian manifolds help understand Type IIB flow.

The paper pinches curvature in expanding Ricci solitons.

New Harnack inequality for heat equation on compact manifolds.

Study on singularities of solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations on manifolds.

A fundamental tool in the analysis of Ricci flow is a compactness result of Hamilton in the spirit of the work of Cheeger, Gromov and others. Roughly speaking it allows one to take a sequence of Ricci flows with uniformly bounded curvature and uniformly controlled injectivity radius, and extract a subsequence that conv…

We give a survey of various compactness and non-compactness results for the Yamabe equation. We also discuss a conjecture of Hamilton concerning the asymptotic behavior of the parabolic Yamabe flow.

In this paper, we study the gradient estimates of Li-Yau-Hamilton type for positive solutions to both drifting heat equation and the simple nonlinear heat equation problem $u_t-Δu=au\log u, \ \ u>0$ on the compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ of dimension $n$ and with non-negative (Bakry-Emery)-Ricci curvature. Here…

This is a revised version of our short note [arxiv.math.DG/0403065] where we discuss the monotonicity of the eigen-values of the Laplacian operator to the Ricci-Hamilton flow on a compact or a complete non-compact Riemannian manifold. We show that the eigenvalue of the Lapacian operator on a compact domain associated w…

We confirm a conjecture of Hamilton: On compact manifolds the normalized Ricci flow evolves metrics with positive curvature operators to limit metrics with constant curvature.

Three-manifolds with non-negative pinched Ricci curvature have complete Ricci flows.

The paper provides gradient estimates for a parabolic equation under Finsler geometric flows.

The paper classifies cosymplectic manifolds with critical metrics in dimension 3.

In this paper, we study the following conjecture of Hamilton: Any compact gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with positive curvature operator must be Einstein. We first derive several identities. Then we show that the conjecture is true under an additional condition. Furthermore, such a soliton must be of constant curvat…

We contribute to an original problem studied by Hamilton and others, in order to understand the behaviour of maximal solutions of the Ricci flow both in compact and non-compact complete orientable Riemannian manifolds of finite volume. The case of dimension two has peculiarities, which force us to use different ideas f…

We define a Hamilton-Jacobi semigroup acting on continuous functions on a compact length space. Following a strategy of Bobkov, Gentil and Ledoux, we use some basic properties of the semigroup to study geometric inequalities related to concentration of measure. Our main results are that (1) a Talagrand inequality on a …

In this paper, we prove the Hamilton differential Harnack inequality for positive solutions to the heat equation of the Witten Laplacian on complete Riemannian manifolds with the $CD(-K, m)$-condition, where $m\in [n, \infty)$ and $K\geq 0$ are two constants. Moreover, we introduce the $W$-entropy and prove the $W$-ent…

The paper provides gradient estimates for nonlinear heat-type equations on smooth metric measure spaces.

In this work we extend the ODE Maximum principle of Hamilton to non-compact hypersurfaces using the Omari-Yau maximum principle at infinity. As an application of this result, we investigate Inverse Mean Curvature Flow (IMCF) of non-compact hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space. Specifically, we look at bounded graphs over …

Study Ricci flows on manifolds, proving they behave like self-similar solutions and confirming a conjecture.

In this short note we present local derivative estimates for heat equations on Riemannian manifolds following the line of W.-X. Shi. As an application we generalize a second derivative estimate of R. Hamilton for heat equations on compact manifolds to noncompact case.

In this paper, we prove logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and derive the Hamilton Harnack inequality for the heat semigroup of the Witten Laplacian on complete Riemannian manifolds equipped with $K$-super Perelman Ricci flow. We establish the $W$-entropy formula for the heat equation of the Witten Laplacian and prove a …

In a former paper we proposed a model for the quantization of gravity by working in a bundle $E$ where we realized the Hamilton constraint as the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. However, the corresponding operator only acts in the fibers and not in the base space. Therefore, we now discard the Wheeler-DeWitt equation and expr…

Yamabe flow proves compactness of certain locally conformally flat manifolds with positive Ricci curvature.

We disprove the generalized Chern-Hamilton conjecture on the existence of critical compatible metrics on contact $3$-manifolds. More precisely, we show that a contact $3$-manifold $(M,α)$ admits a critical compatible metric for the Chern-Hamilton energy functional if and only if it is Sasakian or its associated Reeb fl…

In this paper, we give the full proof of a conjecture of R.Hamilton that for $(M^3, g)$ being a complete Riemannian 3-manifold with bounded curvature and with the Ricci pinching condition $Rc\geq \ep R g$, where $R>0$ is the positive scalar curvature and $\ep>0$ is a uniform constant, $M^3$ is compact. One of the key i…

Abstract: From complex financial models to simpler Hamilton-Jacobi equations.

This paper extends 3D results to higher dimensions, proving compactness for PIC1 pinched manifolds.

In \cite{P1}, Perelman established a differential Li-Yau-Hamilton (LYH) type inequality for fundamental solutions of the conjugate heat equation corresponding to the Ricci flow on compact manifolds (also see \cite{N2}). As an application of the LYH inequality, Perelman proved a pseudolocality result for the Ricci flow …

Based on the compactness of the moduli of non-collapsed Calabi-Yau spaces with mild singularities, we set up a structure theory for polarized Kähler Ricci flows with proper geometric bounds. Our theory is a generalization of the structure theory of non-collapsed Kähler Einstein manifolds. As applications, we prove the …

Paper proves Hamilton's pinching theorem using mean curvature flow.

The paper proves stability of Ricci flow for certain initial conditions.

We show that three-dimensional homogeneous Ricci flow solutions that admit finite-volume quotients have long-time limits given by expanding solitons. We show that the same is true for a large class of four-dimensional homogeneous solutions. We give an extension of Hamilton's compactness theorem that does not assume a l…

Study of Hamilton-Jacobi Theory with symmetries and integrability by quadratures.

This work is devoted to the study of parabolic frequency for solutions of the heat equation on Riemannian manifolds. We show that the parabolic frequency functional is almost increasing on compact manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature, which generalizes a monotonicity result proved by C. Poon and by L. Ni. The…

Study stability of compact Ricci solitons using entropy variations.

Geometric models for Lie--Hamilton systems on \(\mathbb{R}^2\) are described.

New proof confirms noncompact locally conformally flat manifolds are compact.

Let (M,g_0) be a compact Riemannian manifold with pointwise 1/4-pinched sectional curvatures. We show that the Ricci flow deforms g_0 to a constant curvature metric. The proof uses the fact, also established in this paper, that positive isotropic curvature is preserved by the Ricci flow in all dimensions. We also rely …

We obtain a lower bound for the diameter of a solution to the Ricci flow on a compact manifold with nonvanishing first real cohomology. A consequence of our result is an affirmative answer to Hamilton's conjecture that a product metric on $(S^{1}\times S^{n-1}$ cannot arise as a final time limit flow.

In this paper, we study certain compact 4-manifolds with non-negative sectional curvature $K$. If $s$ is the scalar curvature and $W_+$ is the self-dual part of Weyl tensor, then it will be shown that there is no metric $g$ on $S^2 \times S^2$ with both (i) $K > 0$ and (ii) ${1/6} s - W_+ \ge 0$. We also investigate o…