Non-explosion of diffusion processes on manifolds with time-dependent metric (Q636780)

The authors study diffusion processes on a manifold with time-dependent Riemannian metric; more precisely, they study the non-explosion problem and prove that the Brownian motion cannot explode in finite time if the metric evolves according to \[ \partial g/\partial t\leq\mathrm{Ric}(g), \] which in particular, in case of equality, means that the metric evolves according to the backwards Ricci-flow. As a tool, for the proof of their result which is of independent interest, they prove an Itô formula for the radial process \(\rho(t,X_t)\) associated with the distance \(\rho(t,x)\) with respect to the metric \(g(t)\) of a point \(x\) and a fixed reference point \(o\).