Some topics on Ricci solitons and self-similar solutions to mean curvature flow

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Publication date: 4 May 2012

Abstract: In this survey article, we discuss some topics on self-similar solutions to the Ricci flow and the mean curvature flow. Self-similar solutions to the Ricci flow are known as Ricci solitons. In the first part of this paper we discuss a lower diameter bound for compact manifolds with shrinking Ricci solitons. Such a bound can be obtained from an eigenvalue estimate for a twisted Laplacian, called the Witten-Laplacian. In the second part we discuss self-similar solutions to the mean curvature flow on cone manifolds. Many results have been obtained for solutions in

or

. We see that many of them extend to cone manifolds, and in particular results on

for special Lagrangians and self-shrinkers can be extended to toric Calabi-Yau cones. We also see that a similar lower diameter bound can be obtained for self-shrinkers to the mean curvature flow as in the case of shrinking Ricci solitons.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91)

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