Moroianu, AndreiMurcia, Ángel J.Shahbazi Alonso, Carlos2025-02-112025-02-112024-03-09Moroianu, A., Murcia, Á.J. & Shahbazi, C.S. The Heterotic-Ricci Flow and Its Three-Dimensional Solitons. J Geom Anal 34, 122 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-024-01570-41050-6926; e-ISSN: 1559-002Xhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-024-01570-4https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/25889La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en J Geom Anal 34, 122 (2024), está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-024-01570-4. The registered version of this article, first published in J Geom Anal 34, 122 (2024), is available online at the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-024-01570-4.We introduce a novel curvature flow, the Heterotic-Ricci flow, as the two-loop renormalization group flow of the Heterotic string common sector and study its three-dimensional compact solitons. The Heterotic-Ricci flow is a coupled curvature evolution flow, depending on a non-negative real parameter, for a complete Riemannian metric and a three-form H on a manifold M. Its most salient feature is that it involves several terms quadratic in the curvature tensor of a metric connection with skew-symmetric torsion H. When the Heterotic-Ricci flow reduces to the generalized Ricci flow and hence it can be understood as a modification of the latter via the second-order correction prescribed by Heterotic string theory, whereas when and the Heterotic-Ricci flow reduces to a constrained version of the RG-2 flow and hence it can be understood as a generalization of the latter via the introduction of the three-form H. Solutions of Heterotic supergravity with trivial gauge bundle, which we call Heterotic solitons, define a particular class of three-dimensional solitons for the Heterotic-Ricci flow and constitute our main object of study. We prove a number of structural results for three-dimensional Heterotic solitons, obtaining, in particular, the complete classification of compact three-dimensional strong Heterotic solitons as hyperbolic three-manifolds or quotients of the Heisenberg group equipped with a left-invariant metric. Furthermore, we prove that all Einstein three-dimensional Heterotic solitons have constant dilaton and leave as open the construction of a Heterotic soliton with non-constant dilaton. In this direction, we prove that Einstein Heterotic solitons with constant dilaton are rigid and therefore cannot be deformed into a solution with non-constant dilaton. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first rigidity result for compact supergravity solutions in the literature.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess12 MatemáticasartículoRiemannian curvature flowsriemannian solitonssupergravity differential equationsrenormalization group flows