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Long time existence of Ricci-harmonic flow

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We give a survey about recent results on Ricci-harmonic flow.

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Li, Y. Long time existence of Ricci-harmonic flow. Front. Math. China 11, 1313–1334 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11464-016-0579-y

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