A generalization of Hamilton's differential Harnack inequality for the Ricci flow
Differential Geometry
2008-09-25 v2 Analysis of PDEs
Abstract
In [10], R. Hamilton established a differential Harnack inequality for solutions to the Ricci flow with nonnegative curvature operator. We show that this inequality holds under the weaker condition that M x R^2 has nonnegative isotropic curvature.
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@article{arxiv.0707.2192,
title = {A generalization of Hamilton's differential Harnack inequality for the Ricci flow},
author = {S. Brendle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.2192},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
revised version, to appear in J. Diff. Geom