On the weak Kähler-Ricci flow

Chen, X.; Tian, G.; Zhang, Z.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-2011-05015-4

On the weak Kähler-Ricci flow
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Abstract:

In this paper, we define and study the Kähler-Ricci flow with initial data not being smooth and discuss some natural applications.

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