A geometric heat flow for vector fields

DOI10.1007/S11425-014-4926-8MaRDI QIDQ2515301zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yi Li, Kefeng Liu

Publication date 31 July 2015

Published in Science China. Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.2698

zbMATH Keywords

geometric heat flowKazdan-Warner-Bourguignon-Ezin identityKilling vector fieldsNavier-Stokes equationsYano's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55)

Abstract: In this paper we introduce and study a geometric heat flow to find Killing vector fields on closed Riemannian manifolds with positive sectional curvature. We study its various properties, prove the global existence of the solution of this flow, discuss its convergence and possible applications, and its relation to the Navier-Stokes equations on manifolds and Kazdan-Warner-Bourguignon-Ezin identity for conformal Killing vector fields. We also provide two new criterions on the existence of Killing vector fields. The similar flow to finding holomorphic vector fields on K"ahler manifolds will be studied in cite{LL2}.

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