Liangdi Zhang — Neckpinchhttps://neckpinch.com/authors/liangdi-zhang/New arXiv papers by Liangdi Zhang, from Neckpinch Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:41:12 GMT Existence of the (α,β)-Ricci-Yamabe flow on closed manifoldshttps://neckpinch.com/papers/2302.03199/arxiv:2302.03199Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMTLiangdi Zhang — On a smooth closed Riemannian manifold, we show short time existence of smooth solutions to the (α,β)-Ricci-Yamabe flow, which is a natural generalization of the Ricci flow and the Yamabe flow. We also establish some long time existence theorems for the closed (α,β)-Ricci-Yamabe flow by estimating its curvatures.Ricci flowYamabe flowLong-time existence & convergenceHarmonic maps & DeTurck trick