arXiv research

In this note we study conformal Ricci flow introduced by Arthur Fischer. We use DeTurck's trick to rewrite conformal Ricci flow as a strong parabolic-elliptic partial differential equations. Then we prove short time existences for conformal Ricci flow on compact manifolds as well as on asymptotically flat manifolds. We…

Paper studies heat flow for maps on manifolds, avoiding singularities.

We study a fully nonlinear flow for conformal metrics. The long-time existence and the sequential convergence of flow are established for locally conformally flat manifolds. As an application, we solve the $\sk$-Yamabe problem for locally conformal flat manifolds when $k \neq n/2$.

Flow stabilizes on non-Kähler metrics near Calabi-Yau.

The paper studies deformation of discrete conformal structures on surfaces using combinatorial curvature flows.

In this article we study the short-time existence of conformal Ricci flow on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. We also prove a local Shi's type curvature derivative estimate for conformal Ricci flow.

Fractional combinatorial flow improves surface conformal structures.

Paper studies smoothness of bi-conformal heat flow on 4-manifolds.

Study on Kähler-Ricci flow and conformal submersion singularity formation.

We analyze an energy functional associated to Conformal Ricci Flow along closed manifolds with constant negative scalar curvature. Given initial conditions we use this functional to demonstrate the uniqueness of both the metric and the pressure function along Conformal Ricci Flow.

Introduces conformal Bach flow and proves its well-posedness and backward uniqueness.

Using the conformally invariant Cotton tensor, we define a geometric flow, the "Cotton flow", which is exclusive to three dimensions. This flow tends to evolve the initial metrics into conformally flat ones, and is somewhat orthogonal to the Yamabe flow, the latter being a flow within a conformal class. We define an en…

The paper introduces combinatorial curvature and flow for polyhedral surfaces, proving rigidity and solving the Yamabe problem.

New discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundary, proving global rigidity and constructing hyperbolic metrics.

Normalizing flows can now estimate densities on unknown manifolds.

Paper shows no finite time singularities for smooth conformal heat flow of harmonic maps.

A manifold $M$ is locally conformally Kahler (LCK) if it admits a Kahler covering with monodromy acting by holomorphic homotheties. Let $M$ be an LCK manifold admitting a holomorphic conformal flow of diffeomorphisms, lifted to a non-isometric homothetic flow on its covering. We show that $M$ admits an automorphic pote…

Study on deforming discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundaries.

In this paper, we investigate the behavior of the normalized Ricci flow on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. We show that the normalized Ricci flow exists globally and converges to an Einstein metric when starting from a non-degenerate and sufficiently Ricci pinched metric. More importantly we use maximum principles…

Efficiently samples conformal boundaries in high dimensions using flows.

New heat flow for harmonic maps avoids singularities but not bubbles.

This study reduces Willmore flows of tori to simpler problems and finds new conformally constrained Willmore tori.

FCI method uses flow-based techniques to improve prediction confidence.

We introduce a variation of the classical Ricci flow equation that modifies the unit volume constraint of that equation to a scalar curvature constraint. The resulting equations are named the Conformal Ricci Flow Equations because of the role that conformal geometry plays in constraining the scalar curvature. These equ…

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

In this paper, we introduce and study the conformal mean curvature flow of submanifolds of higher codimension in the Euclidean space $\bbr^n$. This kind of flow is a special case of a general modified mean curvature flow which is of various origination. As the main result, we prove a blow-up theorem concluding that, un…

New metrics connect surfaces with Anosov flows to those with negative curvature.

Article explains and implements mean curvature flow for surface parametrization.

Proposes a method to apply conformal prediction to probabilistic time series forecasting models.

Paper constructs new non-Anosov Partially Hyperbolic Geodesic flows using conformal deformations.

We study the Laplacian flow of a $\mathrm{G}_2$-structure where this latter structure is claimed to be Locally Conformal Parallel. The first examples of long time solutions of this flow with the Locally Conformal Parallel condition are given. All of the solutions are ancient and Laplacian soliton of shrinking type. The…

Paper studies flow on hyperbolic surfaces to match boundary lengths.

We study the integrability of the conformal geodesic flow (also known as the conformal circle flow) on the $SO(3)$--invariant gravitational instantons. On a hyper--Kähler four--manifold the conformal geodesic equations reduce to geodesic equations of a charged particle moving in a constant self--dual magnetic field. In…

Contrast uses normalizing flows to create precise prediction regions for multi-dimensional outputs.

We show that any locally conformally flat ancient solution to the Ricci flow must be rotationally symmetric. As a by-product, we prove that any locally conformally flat Ricci soliton is a gradient soliton in the shrinking and steady cases as well as in the expanding case, provided the soliton has nonnegative curvature.

We prove global existence of instantaneously complete Yamabe flows on hyperbolic space of arbitrary dimension $m\geq3$ starting from any smooth, conformally hyperbolic initial metric. We do not require initial completeness or curvature bounds. With the same methods, we show rigidity of hyperbolic space under the Yamabe…

Paper extends isoperimetric inequalities for non-starshaped hypersurfaces.

Introduces generalized Yamabe flows with long-time existence and convergence results.

In this paper we continue our studies of the one dimensional conformal metric flows, which were introduced in [8]. In this part we mainly focus on evolution equations involving fourth order derivatives. The global existence and exponential convergence of metrics for the 1-Q and 4-Q flows are obtained.

The elastic flow, which is the $L^2$-gradient flow of the elastic energy, has several applications in geometry and elasticity theory. We present stable discretizations for the elastic flow in two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds that are conformally flat, i.e.\ conformally equivalent to the Euclidean space. Examples in…

We employ three different methods to prove the following result on prescribed scalar curvature plus mean curvature problem: Let $(M^n,g_0)$ be a $n$-dimensional smooth compact manifold with boundary, where $n \geq 3$, assume the conformal invariant $Y(M,\partial M)<0$. Given any negative smooth functions $f$ in $M$ and…

ConfFlow uses transformer networks to generate molecular conformations efficiently.

Study the isoperimetric problem in Riemannian manifolds with non-trivial conformal vector fields.

Study on Ricci flow on 4-spheres, proving standard sphere convergence.

Study on curvature conditions for non-conformally flat spheres using quasiconformal maps and Ricci flow.

We study a fractional conformal curvature flow on the standard unit sphere and prove a perturbation result of the fractional Nirenberg problem with fractional exponent $σ\in (1/2,1)$. This extends the result of Chen-Xu (Invent. Math. 187, no. 2, 395-506, 2012) for the scalar curvature flow on the standard unit sphere.

We provide obstructions to the existence of conformally Anosov Reeb flows on a 3-manifold that partially generalize similar obstructions to Anosov Reeb flows. In particular, we show $\mathbb{S}^3$ does not admit conformally Anosov Reeb flows. We also give a Riemannian geometric condition on a metric compatible with a c…

The paper classifies solitons for mean curvature flow in hyperbolic space.