Generalizes Ricci flow to brane flows with n-forms, proves monotonicity for fixed field-dependent volume flows and that steady solitons are gradient solitons, including a new functional for Chern-Simons cases.
Irreversibility of World-sheet Renormalization Group Flow
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We demonstrate the irreversibility of a wide class of world-sheet renormalization group (RG) flows to first order in $\alpha'$ in string theory. Our techniques draw on the mathematics of Ricci flows, adapted to asymptotically flat target manifolds. In the case of somewhere-negative scalar curvature (of the target space), we give a proof by constructing an entropy that increases monotonically along the flow, based on Perelman's Ricci flow entropy. One consequence is the absence of periodic solutions, and we are able to give a second, direct proof of this. If the scalar curvature is everywhere positive, we instead construct a regularized volume to provide an entropy for the flow. Our results are, in a sense, the analogue of Zamolodchikov's $c$-theorem for world-sheet RG flows on noncompact spacetimes (though our entropy is not the Zamolodchikov $C$-function).
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Riemannian manifolds with a closed parallel torsion 3-form are locally N × G (G semisimple), enabling simplified proofs and explicit classification of strong G2, Spin(7), and certain 8D HKT manifolds.
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Generalizes Ricci flow to brane flows with n-forms, proves monotonicity for fixed field-dependent volume flows and that steady solitons are gradient solitons, including a new functional for Chern-Simons cases.
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On the rigidity of special and exceptional geometries with torsion a closed $3$-form
Riemannian manifolds with a closed parallel torsion 3-form are locally N × G (G semisimple), enabling simplified proofs and explicit classification of strong G2, Spin(7), and certain 8D HKT manifolds.