Ricci iteration on homogeneous spaces

Pulemotov, Artem; Rubinstein, Yanir

doi:10.1090/tran/7498

Ricci iteration on homogeneous spaces
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Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 371 (2019), 6257-6287

Abstract:

The Ricci iteration is a discrete analogue of the Ricci flow. We give the first study of the Ricci iteration on a class of Riemannian manifolds that are not Kähler. The Ricci iteration in the non-Kähler setting exhibits new phenomena. Among them is the existence of so-called ancient Ricci iterations. As we show, these are closely related to ancient Ricci flows and provide the first nontrivial examples of Riemannian metrics to which the Ricci operator can be applied infinitely many times. In some of the cases we study, these ancient Ricci iterations emerge (in the Gromov–Hausdorff topology) from a collapsed Einstein metric and converge smoothly to a second Einstein metric. In the case of compact homogeneous spaces with maximal isotropy, we prove a relative compactness result that excludes collapsing. Our work can also be viewed as proposing a dynamical criterion for detecting whether an ancient Ricci flow exists on a given Riemannian manifold as well as a method for predicting its limit.

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