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Harnack inequalities are useful qualitative tools for understanding the properties of partial differential equations. Originally discovered as a property of harmonic functions, Harnack inequalities have since been studied for solutions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Jessica Slegers

In this paper, we consider the Laplacian G_2 flow on a closed seven-dimensional manifold M with a closed G_2-structure. We first obtain the gradient estimates of positive solutions of the heat equation under the Laplacian G_2 flow and then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Chuanhuan Li , Yi Li , Kairui Xu

In this note, we prove some new entropy formula for linear heat equation on static Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature. The results are analogies of Cao and Hamilton's entropies for Ricci flow coupled with heat-type…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Yucheng Ji

We study the Ricci-Bourguignon flow on warped product manifolds with noncompact base. This setting leads naturally to a parabolic partial differential equation on the space of smooth warping functions, arising from the necessary and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-17 José N. V. Gomes , Willian I. Tokura , Hikaru Yamamoto

It is known that the Finsler heat flow is a nonlinear flow. This leads to the study of the linearized heat semigroup for the Finsler heat flow. In this paper, we first study its properties. By means of the linearized heat semigroup, we give…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Qiaoling Xia

We give a geometric interpretation of Hamilton's matrix Harnack inequality for the Ricci flow as the curvature of a connection on space-time.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bennett Chow , Sun-Chin Chu

In this paper, we prove the Hamilton differential Harnack inequality for positive solutions to the heat equation of the Witten Laplacian on complete Riemannian manifolds with the $CD(-K, m)$-condition, where $m\in [n, \infty)$ and $K\geq 0$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Songzi Li , Xiang-Dong Li

In Riemannian geometry, the Ricci flow is the analogue of heat diffusion; a deformation of the metric tensor driven by its Ricci curvature. As a step towards resolving the problem of time in quantum gravity, we attempt to merge the Ricci…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-05 Mohammed Alzain

We establish a Harnack inequality for finite connected graphs with non-negative Ricci curvature. As a consequence, we derive an eigenvalue lower bound, extending previous results for Ricci flat graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-30 Fan Chung , Yong Lin , Shing-Tung Yau

In \cite{P1}, Perelman established a differential Li-Yau-Hamilton (LYH) type inequality for fundamental solutions of the conjugate heat equation corresponding to the Ricci flow on compact manifolds (also see \cite{N2}). As an application of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Albert Chau , Luen-Fai Tam , Chengjie Yu

We establish certain Gaussian type upper bound for the heat kernel of the conjugate heat equation associated with 3 dimensional ancient $\kappa$ solutions to the Ricci flow. As an application, using the $W$ entropy associated with the heat…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-21 Qi S. Zhang

A class of inverse problems for a heat equation with involution perturbation is considered using four different boundary conditions, namely, Dirichlet, Neumann, periodic and anti-periodic boundary conditions. Proved theorems on existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Nasser Al-Salti , Mokhtar Kirane , Berikbol T. Torebek

In this short note, we hope to give a rapid induction for non-experts into the world of Differential Harnack inequalities, which have been so influential in geometric analysis and probability theory over the past few decades. At the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-09 Sebastian Helmensdorfer , Peter Topping

By constructing successful couplings for degenerate diffusion processes, explicit derivative formula and Harnack type inequalities are presented for solutions to a class of degenerate Fokker-Planck equations on $\R^m\times\R^{d}$. The main…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Arnaud Guillin , Feng-Yu Wang

In this paper, we establish a new global Hessian matrix estimate for heat-type equations on Riemannian manifolds using a Bismut-type Hessian formula. Our results feature fully explicit coefficients as well as delay / growth rate functions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Li-Juan Cheng , Rui-Yu Yang

In this paper, we investigate some new local Aronson-B\'enilan type gradient estimates for positive solutions of the porous medium equation $$ u_{t}=\Delta u^{m}, $$ under Ricci flow. As application, the related Harnack inequalities are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Wen Wang , Hui Zhou , Dapeng Xia

In this paper, applying the De Giorgi method, we obtain nonlocal Harnack inequalities for weak solutions of nonlocal parabolic equations given by an integro-differential operator $\rL_K$ as follows; \begin{equation*}\begin{cases} \rL_K…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Yong-Cheol Kim

We prove a differential Harnack inequality for the Endangered Species Equation, a nonlinear parabolic equation. Our derivation relies on an idea related to the parabolic maximum principle. As an application of this inequality, we will show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-30 Xiaodong Cao , Mark Cerenzia , Demetre Kazaras

We introduce a new entropy functional for nonnegative solutions of the heat equation on a manifold with time-dependent Riemannian metric. Under certain integral assumptions, we show that this entropy is non-decreasing, and moreover convex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-03 Hongxin Guo , Robert Philipowski , Anton Thalmaier

For an ancient Ricci flow asymptotic to a compact integrable shrinker, or a Ricci flow developing a finite-time singularity modelled on the shrinker, we establish the long-time existence of a harmonic map heat flow between the Ricci flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Kyeongsu Choi , Yi Lai