Evolve nondegenerate two forms

Abstract

We introduce geometric flows on a compact almost complex manifold, with the aim to flow a nondegenerate two form to a symplectic two form. We discuss mainly two flows, $d^*d$-flow and $d^*d$-Ricci flow. Among others, we prove the uniqueness and short time existence for smooth initial data. We also discuss the extension problem and a long time example on the warped product.