The Soliton-Ricci Flow over Compact Manifolds

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Authors: Nefton Pali 

Publication date: 16 March 2012

Abstract: We introduce a flow of Riemannian metrics over compact manifolds with formal limit at infinite time a shrinking Ricci soliton. We call this flow the Soliton-Ricci flow. It correspond to a Perelman's modified backward Ricci type flow with some special restriction conditions. The restriction conditions are motivated by convexity results for Perelman's $mathcalW$-functional over convex subsets inside adequate subspaces of Riemannian metrics. We show indeed that the Soliton-Ricci flow is generated by the gradient flow of the restriction of Perelman's $mathcalW$-functional over such subspaces. Assuming long time existence of the Soliton-Ricci flow we show exponentially fast convergence to a shrinking Ricci soliton provided that the Bakry-Emery-Ricci tensor is uniformly strictly positive with respect to the evolving metric.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact complex surfaces (32J15) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55)

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