The short time existence and the evolution equation of curvatures

Author(s):  
Tsz-Kiu Aaron Chow

Abstract In this paper, we study the Ricci flow on manifolds with boundary. In the paper, we substantially improve Shen’s result [Y. Shen, On Ricci deformation of a Riemannian metric on manifold with boundary, Pacific J. Math. 173 1996, 1, 203–221] to manifolds with arbitrary initial metric. We prove short-time existence and uniqueness of the solution, in which the boundary becomes instantaneously totally geodesic for positive time. Moreover, we prove that the flow we constructed preserves natural boundary conditions. More specifically, if the initial metric has a convex boundary, then the flow preserves positive curvature operator and the PIC1, PIC2 conditions. Moreover, if the initial metric has a two-convex boundary, then the flow preserves the PIC condition.


Author(s):  
Lucio Bedulli ◽  
Luigi Vezzoni

AbstractWe prove a general criterion to establish existence and uniqueness of a short-time solution to an evolution equation involving “closed” sections of a vector bundle, generalizing a method used by Bryant and Xu [


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Chi Lin ◽  
Yang-Kai Lue

Abstract For any given C2-smooth initial open curves with fixed position and fixed tangent at the boundary points, we obtain the long-time existence of smooth solutions under the second-order evolution of plane curves. Moreover, the asymptotic limit of a convergent subsequence is an inextensible elastica.


2006 ◽  
Vol 181 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Alvarez ◽  
Philippe Hoch ◽  
Yann Le Bouar ◽  
Régis Monneau

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Dall’Acqua ◽  
Tim Laux ◽  
Lin ◽  
Paola Pozzi ◽  
Adrian Spener

Abstract We consider closed curves on the sphere moving by the L2-gradient flow of the elastic energy both with and without penalisation of the length and show short-time and long-time existence of the flow. Moreover, when the length is penalised, we prove sub-convergence to critical points.


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