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Sharp gradient estimate for heat kernels on $RCD^*(K,N)$ metric measure spaces

Differential Geometry 2017-01-11 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

In this paper, we will establish an elliptic local Li-Yau gradient estimate for weak solutions of the heat equation on metric measure spaces with generalized Ricci curvature bounded from below. One of its main applications is a sharp gradient estimate for the logarithm of heat kernels. These results seem new even for smooth Riemannian manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.1701.01803,
  title  = {Sharp gradient estimate for heat kernels on $RCD^*(K,N)$ metric measure spaces},
  author = {Jia-Cheng Huang and Hui-Chun Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.01803},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

15 pages. 3 typoes corrected. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1602.05347

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