Curvature flows on surfaces
Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Serie 5, Volume 1 (2002) no. 2, p. 247-274

Prompted by recent work of Xiuxiong Chen, a unified approach to the Hamilton-Ricci and Calabi flows on a closed, compact surface is presented, recovering global existence and exponentially fast asymptotic convergence from concentration-compactness results for conformal metrics.

Classification:  35K22,  35K55,  58G11 
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Struwe, Michael. Curvature flows on surfaces. Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Serie 5, Volume 1 (2002) no. 2, pp. 247-274. http://www.numdam.org/item/ASNSP_2002_5_1_2_247_0/

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