https://neckpinch.com/authors/xiaolan-nie/New arXiv papers by Xiaolan Nie, from Neckpinch Tue, 10 Nov 2026 04:10:28 GMT https://neckpinch.com/papers/1701.04965/arxiv:1701.04965Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMTXiaolan Nie — In this note, we prove the existence of weak solutions of the Chern-Ricci flow through blow downs of exceptional curves, as well as backwards smooth convergence away from the exceptional curves on compact complex surfaces. The smoothing property for the Chern-Ricci flow is also obtained on compact Hermitian manifolds of dimension n under a mild assumption.Ricci flowGeneralized & G₂ flowsWeak & singular flows