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In the paper, we study evolution equations of the scalar and Ricci curvatures under the Hamilton’s Ricci flow on a closed manifold and on a complete noncompact manifold. In particular, we study conditions when the Ricci flow is trivial and the Ricci soliton is Ricci flat or Einstein.
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Rovenski, V., Stepanov, S. & Tsyganok, I. On Evolution Equations Under the Hamilton’s Ricci Flow. Results Math 75, 166 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00025-020-01298-x
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Keywords
- Riemannian manifold
- evolution equations
- Ricci and scalar curvatures
- subharmonic and superharmonic functions
- Ricci soliton