Global behavior of the Ricci flow on generalized flag manifolds with two isotropy summands

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Abstract: In this paper we study the global behavior of the Ricci flow equation for two classes of homogeneous manifolds with two isotropy summands. Using methods of the qualitative theory of differential equations, we present the global phase portrait of such systems and derive some geometrical consequences on the structure of such manifolds under the action of the Ricci flow.


The authors study Hamilton's Ricci flow \[ \frac{d}{dt}g(t)=-2\operatorname{Ric}(g(t)) \] for left-invariant metrics in two classes of generalized flag manifolds with two isotropy summands, namely, \[ \mathrm{SO}(2m+2k+1)/U(m)\times \mathrm{SO}(2k+1)\text{ and } \mathrm{Sp}(m+k)/U(m)\times \mathrm{Sp}(k), \] from a qualitative viewpoint. They use a method called Poincaré compactification. Their main result is the following theorem. Let \(g_0\) be an invariant metric in one of the manifolds above. There are regions \(R_1\), \(R_2\), \(R_3\) and lines \(\gamma_1\), \(\gamma_2\) with \(\gamma_j=\partial R_j\cap\partial R_{j+1}\), \(j=1, 2\), such that (a) if \(g_0\in R_1\cup R_2\cup\gamma_1\), then \(g_\infty\) is a Einstein (non-Kähler) metric; (b) if \(g_0\in\gamma_2\), then \(g_\infty\) is a Kähler-Einstein metric; (c) for \(g_0\in R_3\), consider the natural fibration \(G/H\to G/K\) from the flag manifold to a symmetric space; then, the Ricci flow starting at \(g_0\) evolves in such a way that the diameter of the base of this fibration converges to zero as \(t\to\infty.\)











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