We consider the Yamabe flow of a conformally Euclidean manifold for which the
conformal factor’s reciprocal is a quadratic function of the Cartesian coordinates at each instant in
time. This leads to a class of explicit solutions having no continuous symmetries (no Killing fields)
but which converge in time to the cigar soliton (in two-dimensions, where the Ricci and Yamabe
flows coincide) or in higher dimensions to the collapsing cigar. We calculate the exponential rate
of this convergence precisely, using the logarithm of the optimal bi-Lipschitz constant to metrize
distance between two Riemannian manifolds.
@article{1228920873,
author = {Burchard, Almut and McCann, Robert J. and Smith, Aaron},
title = {Explicit Yamabe Flow of an Asymmetric Cigar},
journal = {Methods Appl. Anal.},
volume = {15},
number = {1},
year = {2008},
pages = { 65-80},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/1228920873}
}
Burchard, Almut; McCann, Robert J.; Smith, Aaron. Explicit Yamabe Flow of an Asymmetric Cigar. Methods Appl. Anal., Tome 15 (2008) no. 1, pp. 65-80. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1228920873/