Pluriclosed flow on generalized K\"ahler manifolds with split tangent bundle

We show that the pluriclosed flow preserves generalized K\"ahler structures with the extra condition $[J_+,J_-] = 0$, a condition referred to as "split tangent bundle." Moreover, we show that in this in this case the flow reduces to a nonconvex fully nonlinear parabolic flow of a scalar potential function. We prove a number of a priori estimates for this equation, including a general estimate in dimension $n=2$ of Evans-Krylov type requiring a new argument due to the nonconvexity of the equation. The main result is a long time existence theorem for the flow in dimension $n=2$, covering most cases. We also show that the pluriclosed flow represents the parabolic analogue to an elliptic problem which is a very natural generalization of the Calabi conjecture to the setting of generalized K\"ahler geometry with split tangent bundle.Comment: to appear Crelle's Journa

Pluriclosed flow on manifolds with globally generated bundles

We show global existence and convergence results for the pluriclosed flow on manifolds for which certain naturally associated tensor bundles are globally generated

Ricci Yang-Mills flow on surfaces

We study the behaviour of the Ricci Yang-Mills flow for U(1) bundles on surfaces. We show that existence for the flow reduces to a bound on the isoperimetric constant. In the presence of such a bound, we show that on $S^2$, if the bundle is nontrivial, the flow exists for all time. For higher genus surfaces the flow always exists for all time. The volume normalized flow always exists for all time and converges to a constant scalar curvature metric with the bundle curvature $F$ parallel. Finally, in an appendix we classify all gradient solitons of this flow on surfaces