Open AccessMathematics

Mircea Crasmareanu, Sinem Güler

2017.6.28Turkish Journal of Mathematics

DOI: 10.3906/mat-1902-38

Abstract

The aim of this short note is to produce new examples of geometrical flows associated to a given Riemannian flow $g(t)$. The considered flow in covariant symmetric $2$-tensor fields will be called Ricci-Yamabe map since it involves a scalar combination of Ricci tensor and scalar curvature of $g(t)$. Due to the signs of considered scalars the Ricci-Yamabe flow can be also a Riemannian or semi-Riemannian or singular Riemannian flow. We study the associated function of volume variation as well as the volume entropy. Finally, since the two-dimensional case was the most handled situation we express the Ricci flow equation in all four orthogonal separable coordinate systems of the plane.

Citation format

CRASMAREANU, Mircea; GÜLER, Sinem. Ricci-yamabe maps for riemannian flows and their volume variation and volume entropy [preprint]. arXiv, 2017. arXiv:1706.09368.