Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

C. Mantegazza - S. Mongodi - M. Rimoldi

The Cotton Tensor and the Ricci Flow

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Inserted: 22 mar 2012
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Journal: Geometric Flows
Volume: 2
Pages: 49-71
Year: 2017

Abstract:

We compute the evolution equation of the Cotton tensor under the Ricci flow of a Riemannian manifold, with particular attention to the three dimensional case and we discuss some applications.


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