Ricci flow on Courant algebroids

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Main Authors: Streets, Jeffrey, Strickland-Constable, Charles, Valach, Fridrich
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Published: 2024
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author Streets, Jeffrey
Strickland-Constable, Charles
Valach, Fridrich
author_facet Streets, Jeffrey
Strickland-Constable, Charles
Valach, Fridrich
contents We develop a theory of Ricci flow for metrics on Courant algebroids which unifies and extends the analytic theory of various geometric flows, yielding a general tool for constructing solutions to supergravity equations. We prove short time existence and uniqueness of solutions on compact manifolds, in turn showing that the Courant isometry group is preserved by the flow. We show a scalar curvature monotonicity formula and prove that generalized Ricci flow is a gradient flow, extending fundamental works of Hamilton and Perelman. Using these we show a convergence result for certain nonsingular solutions to generalized Ricci flow.
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spellingShingle Ricci flow on Courant algebroids
Streets, Jeffrey
Strickland-Constable, Charles
Valach, Fridrich
Differential Geometry
Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
We develop a theory of Ricci flow for metrics on Courant algebroids which unifies and extends the analytic theory of various geometric flows, yielding a general tool for constructing solutions to supergravity equations. We prove short time existence and uniqueness of solutions on compact manifolds, in turn showing that the Courant isometry group is preserved by the flow. We show a scalar curvature monotonicity formula and prove that generalized Ricci flow is a gradient flow, extending fundamental works of Hamilton and Perelman. Using these we show a convergence result for certain nonsingular solutions to generalized Ricci flow.
title Ricci flow on Courant algebroids
topic Differential Geometry
Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11069