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Sibirsk. Mat. Zh., 2016 Volume 57, Number 2, Pages 432–446 (Mi smj2755)

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Dirac flow on the $3$-sphere

E. G. Malkovich

Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Abstract: We illustrate some well-known facts about the evolution of the $3$-sphere $(S^3,g)$ generated by the Ricci flow. We define the Dirac flow and study the properties of the metric $\overline g=dt^2+g(t)$, where $g(t)$ is a solution of the Dirac flow. In the case of a metric $g$ conformally equivalent to the round metric on $S^3$ the metric $\overline g$ is of constant curvature. We study the properties of solutions in the case when $g$ depends on two functional parameters. The flow on differential $1$-forms whose solution generates the Eguchi–Hanson metric was written down. In particular cases we study the singularities developed by these flows.

Keywords: Dirac flow, Ricci flow, spaces of constant curvature, Eguchi–Hanson metric, Hitchin flow.

UDC: 514.7

Received: 09.04.2015

DOI: 10.17377/smzh.2016.57.216


 English version:
Siberian Mathematical Journal, 2016, 57:2, 340–351

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