Cotton flow

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/25/16/165019MaRDI QIDQ3522763zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ali Ulas Özgür Kisisel, Ö. Sarıoğlu, Bayram Tekin

Publication date 4 September 2008

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.1603

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: 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 entropy functional, and study the flow of nine homogeneous spaces both numerically and analytically. In particular, we show that the arbitrarily deformed homogeneous 3-sphere flows into the round 3-sphere. Two of the nine homogeneous geometries, which are degenerated by the Ricci flow, are left intact by the Cotton flow.

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