2015/07/29 by Jorge Lauret, Lauret, Jorge · 2 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Differential Geometry Research #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Geometry and complex manifolds #math.DG
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1507.08163
31 pages, second version, minor corrections
openalex publication_date 2015/07/29 · arxiv created 2015/11/10 · arxiv updated 2015/11/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We develop a general approach to study geometric flows on homogeneous spaces. Our main tool will be a dynamical system defined on the variety of Lie algebras called the bracket flow, which coincides with the original geometric flow after a natural change of variables. The advantage of using this method relies on the fact that the possible pointed (or Cheeger-Gromov) limits of solutions, as well as self-similar solutions or soliton structures, can be much better visualized. The approach has already been worked out in the Ricci flow case and for general curvature flows of almost-hermitian structures on Lie groups. This paper is intended as an attempt to motivate the use of the method on homogeneous spaces for any flow of geometric structures under minimal natural assumptions. As a novel application, we find a closed G2-structure on a nilpotent Lie group which is an expanding soliton for the Laplacian flow and is not an eigenvector.