Dissipative hyperbolic geometric flow (Q1002439)

The authors introduce a new kind of hyperbolic geometric flows -- dissipative hyperbolic geometric flow. This kind of flow is defined by a system of quasilinear wave equations with dissipative terms. Some interesting exact solutions are given. In particular, a new concept -- hyperbolic Ricci soliton -- is introduced and some of its geometric properties are described. Short-time existence and uniqueness theorem is also established for the dissipative hyperbolic geometric flow, and nonlinear stability of the flow defined on the Euclidean space of dimension larger than \(2\) is proved. Wave character of the evolving metrics and curvatures is illustrated and the nonlinear wave equations satisfied by the curvatures are derived.