We study an even dimensional manifold with a pseudo-Riemannian metric with arbitrary signature and arbitrary dimensions. We consider the Ricci flat equations and present a procedure to construct solutions to some higher (even) dimensional Ricci flat field equations from the four dimensional Ricci flat metrics. When the four dimensional Ricci flat geometry corresponds to a colliding gravitationa...

We present a novel colon flattening algorithm using the discrete Ricci flow. The discrete Ricci flow is a powerful tool for designing Riemannian metrics on surfaces with arbitrary topologies by user-defined Gaussian curvatures. Moreover, the discrete Ricci flow deforms the Riemannian metric on the surface conformally and minimizes the global distortion, which means the local shape is well prese...

To every Ricci flow on a manifold M over a time interval I ⊂ R, we associate a shrinking Ricci soliton on the space-time M×I . We relate properties of the original Ricci flow to properties of the new higher-dimensional Ricci flow equipped with its own time-parameter. This geometric construction was discovered by consideration of the theory of optimal transportation, and in particular the result...

The Ricci soliton condition reduces to a set of ODEs when one assumes that the metric is a doubly-warped product of a ray with a sphere and an Einstein manifold. If the Einstein manifold has positive Ricci curvature, we show there is a one-parameter family of solutions which give complete non-compact Ricci solitons.

8. Introduction Critical points of distance functions Toponogov's theorem; first application:a Background on finiteness theorems Homotopy Finiteness Appendix. Some volume estimates Betti numbers and rank Appendix: The generalized Mayer-Vietoris estimate Rank, curvature and diameter Ricci curvature, volume and the Laplacian Appendix. The maximum principle Ricci curvature, diameter growth and fin...

In this paper, we prove that the Lp essential spectra of the Laplacian on functions are [0,+∞) on a noncompact complete Riemannian manifold with non-negative Ricci curvature at infinity. The similar method applies to gradient shrinking Ricci soliton, which is similar to non-compact manifold with non-negative Ricci curvature in many ways. © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

A Ricci soliton (M, g, v, λ) on a Riemannian manifold (M, g) is said to have concurrent potential field if its potential field v is a concurrent vector field. In the first part of this paper we classify Ricci solitons with concurrent potential fields. In the second part we derive a necessary and sufficient condition for a submanifold to be a Ricci soliton in a Riemannian manifold equipped with ...