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Evolution of Eigenvalues along Rescaled Ricci Flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Junfang Li*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 e-mail: jli@math.uab.edu
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Abstract

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In this paper, we discuss monotonicity formulae of various entropy functionals under various rescaled versions of Ricci flow. As an application, we prove that the lowest eigenvalue of a family of geometric operators $-4\Delta \,+\,kR$ is monotonic along the normalized Ricci flow for all $k\,\ge \,1$ provided the initial manifold has nonpositive total scalar curvature.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2013

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