Paper · Dec 10, 2023

Calabi flow with bounded scalar curvature

Haozhao Li, Linwei Zhang, Kai Zheng

math.DGWider flowsarXiv:2312.05816v2
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In this paper, we show that the Calabi flow can be extended as long as the scalar curvature is uniformly bounded for some , and on a compact extremal Kähler manifold the Calabi flow with uniformly bounded scalar curvature exists for all time and converges exponentially fast to an extremal Kähler metric.

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Other curvature flowsKähler geometryScalar curvatureLong-time existence & convergenceKähler–Einstein & K-stability

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