A mechanics for the Ricci flow

DOI10.1142/S0219887809003825zbMATH Open1183.53034arXiv0810.2356OpenAlexW3098256091MaRDI QIDQ3401894FDOQ3401894

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Publication date: 1 February 2010

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct the classical mechanics associated with a conformally flat Riemannian metric on a compact, n-dimensional manifold without boundary. The corresponding gradient Ricci flow equation turns out to equal the time-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equation of the mechanics so defined.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.2356

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum mechanicsRicci flowclassical mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70) Dynamics of a system of particles, including celestial mechanics (70F99)

Cites Work

• Equivalence principle, higher-dimensional Möbius group and the hidden antisymmetric tensor of quantum mechanics

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