Ricci-Yamabe maps for Riemannian flows and their volume variation and volume entropy

The aim of this short note is to produce new examples of geometrical flows associated to a given Riemannian flow g(t). The considered flow in covariant symmetric 2-tensor fields will be called Ricci-Yamabe map since it involves a scalar combination of Ricci tensor and scalar curvature of g(t). Due to the signs of considered scalars the Ricci-Yamabe flow can be also a Riemannian or semi-Riemannian or singular Riemannian flow. We study the associated function of volume variation as well as the volume entropy. Finally, since the two-dimensional case was the most commonly addressed situation we express the Ricci flow equation in all four orthogonal separable coordinate systems of the plane.