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A matrix differential Harnack estimate for a class of ultraparabolic equations

Analysis of PDEs 2013-12-24 v4 Differential Geometry

Abstract

Let uu be a positive solution of the ultraparabolic equation \begin{equation*} \partial_t u=\sum_{i=1}^n \partial_{x_i}^2 u+\sum_{i=1}^k x_i\partial_{x_{n+i}}u \hspace{8mm} \mbox{on} \hspace{4mm} \mathbb{R}^{n+k}\times (0,T), \end{equation*} where 1kn1\leq k\leq n and 0<T+0<T \leq +\infty. Assume that uu and its derivatives (w.r.t. the space variables) up to the second order are bounded on any compact subinterval of (0,T)(0,T). Then the difference H(logu)H(logf)H(\log u)- H(\log f) of the Hessian matrices of logu\log u and of logf\log f (both w.r.t. the space variables) is non-negatively definite, where ff is the fundamental solution of the above equation with pole at the origin (0,0)(0,0). The estimate in the case n=k=1n=k=1 is due to Hamilton. As a corollary we get that Δl+n+3k2t+6kt30\Delta l+\frac{n+3k}{2t}+\frac{6k}{t^3}\geq 0, where l=logul=\log u, and Δ=i=1n+kxi2\Delta=\sum_{i=1}^{n+k} \partial_{x_i}^2 .

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@article{arxiv.1306.4810,
  title  = {A matrix differential Harnack estimate for a class of ultraparabolic equations},
  author = {Hong Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.4810},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

13 pages, the condition of the main theorem is slightly weakened, and more details are added