Ricci flow on Finsler surfaces

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Abstract: Here, we study the existence and uniqueness of solutions to the Ricci flow on Finsler surfaces and show short time existence of solutions for such flows. To this purpose, we first study the Finslerian Ricci-DeTurck flow on Finsler surfaces and find a unique short time solution to this flow. Then, we find a solution to the original Ricci flow by pulling back the solution of the Ricci-DeTurck flow using appropriate diffeomorphisms. In the end, we illustrate this argument with some examples.


The authors introduce a new Ricci flow called \textit{Ricci-DeTurck flow}. More precisely, for a compact Finsler surface \(M\) and for a given an initial Finsler structure \(F_0\), the authors state that there exists a positive real number \(T\) and a smooth one-parameter family of Finsler structures \((\widetilde{F}(t))_{t\in [0,T)}\), where \(\widetilde{F}(t)\) is the solution of the following boundary value problem \[ \frac{\partial\widetilde{F^2}(t)}{\partial t}= -2\widetilde{F^2}(t)\operatorname{Ric}(\widetilde{g}(t))-\mathcal{L}_{\zeta}\widetilde{F^2}(t), \text{ and }\widetilde{F}(0)=F_0, \] where \(\operatorname{Ric}(\widetilde{g}(t))\) is the Ricci scalar for \(\widetilde{g}(t)\), the Finsler tensor metric associated to \(\widetilde{F}(t)\), and \(\mathcal{L}_\zeta\) represents the Lie derivative w.r.t \(\zeta\), an explicit vector field on \(SM\) (the sphere bundle) (Theorem 1). Next, by pulling back \(\widetilde{F}(t)\) through a one-parameter family of diffeomorphisms on \(SM\) (Proposition 5.2), the authors obtain a one-parameter family of Finsler structures \((F(t))_{t\in [0,T)}\) where \(F(t)\) is the solution of \(\displaystyle \frac{\partial}{\partial t}\log F(t)=-\operatorname{Ric}(g(t)),\text{ and }F(0)=F_0\) (Theorem 2). The authors furnish two delightful applications (Examples 5.1 and 5.2).











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