Short-time existence for some higher-order geometric flows

DOI10.1080/03605302.2011.593015MaRDI QIDQ3106559zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eric Bahuaud, Dylan Helliwell

Publication date 28 December 2011

Published in Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.4287

zbMATH Keywords

ambient obstruction tensorBach flowhigh-order geometric flowshigh-order parabolic Schauder estimateshort-time existence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-order parabolic equations (35K25) Quasilinear parabolic equations (35K59) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

Abstract: We establish short-time existence and regularity for higher-order flows generated by a class of polynomial natural tensors that, after an adjustment by the Lie derivative of the metric with respect to a suitable vector field, have strongly parabolic linearizations. We apply this theorem to flows by powers of the Laplacian of the Ricci tensor, and to flows generated by the ambient obstruction tensor. As a special case, we prove short-time existence for a type of Bach flow.

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