18 citations · 36 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
2 papers
gr-qc2007★ 18 cited
Energy, entropy and the Ricci flow
Joseph Samuel, Sutirtha Roy Chowdhury
The Ricci flow is a heat equation for metrics, which has recently been used to study the topology of closed three manifolds. In this paper we apply Ricci flow techniques to general…
gr-qc2007★ 18 cited
Geometric flows and black hole entropy
Joseph Samuel, Sutirtha Roy Chowdhury
Perelman has given a gradient formulation for the Ricci flow, introducing an ``entropy function'' which increases monotonically along the flow.We pursue a thermodynamic analogy and…