A Hermitian Curvature Flow

Abstract

A Hermitian curvature flow on a compact Calabi-Yau manifold is proposed and a regularity result is obtained. The solution of the flow, if exists, is a balanced Hermitian-Einstein metric.

Keywords

Hermitian Yang-Mills / Evolution equations / Regularity

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