The Ricci flow in a class of solvmanifolds

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2013.04.002zbMATH Open1279.53061arXiv1211.3605OpenAlexW1997283129WikidataQ115356596 ScholiaQ115356596MaRDI QIDQ385745FDOQ385745

Authors: Romina M. Arroyo 

Publication date: 11 December 2013

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we study the Ricci flow of solvmanifolds whose Lie algebra has an abelian ideal of codimension one, by using the bracket flow. We prove that solutions to the Ricci flow are immortal, the omega-limit of bracket flow solutions is a single point, and that for any sequence of times there exists a subsequence in which the Ricci flow converges, in the pointed topology, to a manifold which is locally isometric to a flat manifold. We give a functional which is non-increasing along a normalized bracket flow that will allow us to prove that given a sequence of times, one can extract a subsequence converging to an algebraic soliton, and to determine which of these limits are flat. Finally, we use these results to prove that if a Lie group in this class admits a Riemannian metric of negative sectional curvature, then the curvature of any Ricci flow solution will become negative in finite time.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3605

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

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• Weyl-Einstein structures on conformal solvmanifolds
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• Immortal homogeneous Ricci flows
• Positive Hermitian curvature flow on nilpotent and almost-abelian complex Lie groups
• Optimal curvature estimates for homogeneous Ricci flows
• Distinguished \(G_2\)-structures on solvmanifolds
• On homogeneous closed gradient Laplacian solitons
• The Ricci pinching functional on solvmanifolds II
• Explicit soliton for the Laplacian co-flow on a solvmanifold
• Convergence and stability of locally \(\mathbb R^N\)-invariant solutions of Ricci flow
• Generalized Ricci flow on nilpotent Lie groups
• Harmonic \(\operatorname{G}_2\)-structures on almost abelian Lie groups

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