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Time has dimension $2$ with respect to the Ricci flow scaling
Terence Tao in his lecture notes on Ricci flow has written:
If we are to find a scale-invariant (and diffeomorphism-invariant) monotone quantity for Ricci flow, it had better be constant on the ...
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On Perelman's paper
In section 5 in "The entropy formula for the Ricci flow and its geometric applications" Perelman has written:
Fix a closed manifold $M$ with a probability measure $m$, and suppose
that our system is ...
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Energy functional
During my study on Ricci Flow I faced some functional known as energy functional. For example Einstein-Hilbert functional is called an energy functional, also in Perelman's works $\mathcal{F}(g,f)=\...
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