Lie point symmetry conjecture for the Ricci flow
Lie point symmetry conjecture for the Ricci flow
Let be a Riemannian manifold with , and write in local coordinates . Let denote time, and let be arbitrary smooth functions of . The Ricci flow is the evolution equation for the metric given by . Lie point symmetry conjecture. The Lie algebra of classical, or Lie point, symmetries of the Ricci flow is spanned by
and
where . The Ricci flow admits at least this Lie algebra of symmetries, and the conjecture asserts that it admits no additional Lie symmetries. The time translation, scaling, and coordinate covariance symmetries arise from direct calculations and the covariance of the Ricci flow; what remains is to establish that the displayed algebra is also sufficient and hence complete.
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Enrique López, Stylianos Dimas and Yuri Bozhkov, “Symmetries of Ricci Flows”, arXiv:2212.13630 (2023).
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