Ricci flow of homogeneous manifolds

We present in this paper a general approach to study the Ricci flow on homogeneous manifolds. Our main tool is a dynamical system defined on a subset Hq,n of the variety of (q+n)-dimensional Lie algebras, parameterizing the space of all simply connected homogeneous spaces of dimension n with a q-dim...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Lauret, Jorge Ruben
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/8988
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/8988
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ricci Flow
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
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Sumario:We present in this paper a general approach to study the Ricci flow on homogeneous manifolds. Our main tool is a dynamical system defined on a subset Hq,n of the variety of (q+n)-dimensional Lie algebras, parameterizing the space of all simply connected homogeneous spaces of dimension n with a q-dimensional isotropy, which is proved to be equivalent in a precise sense to the Ricci flow. The approach is useful to better visualize the possible (nonflat) pointed limits of Ricci flow solutions, under diverse rescalings, as well as to determine the type of the possible singularities. Ancient solutions arise naturally from the qualitative analysis of the evolution equation. We develop two examples in detail: a 2-parameter subspace of H1,3 reaching most of 3-dimensional geometries, and a 2-parameter family in H0,n of left-invariant metrics on n-dimensional compact and non-compact semisimple Lie groups.