Brownian motion with respect to time-changing Riemannian metrics, applications to Ricci flow

DOI10.1214/10-AIHP364zbMATH Open1222.58030arXiv0901.1999WikidataQ115240886 ScholiaQ115240886MaRDI QIDQ537137FDOQ537137

Authors: Koléhè A. Coulibaly-Pasquier 

Publication date: 19 May 2011

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Probabilités et Statistiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We generalize Brownian motion on a Riemannian manifold to the case of a family of metrics which depends on time. Such questions are natural for equations like the heat equation with respect to time dependent Laplacians (inhomogeneous diffusions). In this paper we are in particular interested in the Ricci flow which provides an intrinsic family of time dependent metrics. We give a notion of parallel transport along this Brownian motion, and establish a generalization of the Dohrn-Guerra or damped parallel transport, Bismut integration by part formulas, and gradient estimate formulas. One of our main results is a characterization of the Ricci flow in terms of the damped parallel transport. At the end of the paper we give an intrinsic definition of the damped parallel transport in terms of stochastic flows, and derive an intrinsic martingale which may provide information about singularities of the flow.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.1999

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zbMATH Keywords

Brownian motionheat equationRicci flowgradient estimatesBismut formuladamped parallel transport

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic calculus of variations and the Malliavin calculus (60H07) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Diffusion processes and stochastic analysis on manifolds (58J65)

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