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Let $(M, g)$ be an dimensional complete Riemannian manifold. In this paper we prove local Li-Yau type gradient estimates for all positive solutions to the following nonlinear parabolic equation \begin{equation*} (\partial_t - \Delta_g +…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-05 Abimbola Abolarinwa

This work deals with the Entire solutions of a nonlinear equation. The first part of this paper is devoted to investigation of the Liouville property on compact manifolds, which extends a result by Castorina-Mantegazza [4] for positive f.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Huan-Jie Chen , Shi-Zhong Du , Yue-Xiao Ma

In this paper, we investigate $V$-harmonic heat flows from complete Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature to complete Riemannian manifolds with sectional curvature bounded above. We give a gradient estimate of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Han Luo , Weike Yu , Xi Zhang

In this paper, we study the gradient estimate for positive solutions to the following nonlinear heat equation problem $$ u_t-\Delta u=au\log u+Vu, \ \ u>0 $$ on the compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ of dimension $n$ and with non-negative…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-06 Li Ma

In this paper, we prove the Li-Yau type Harnack inequality and Hamilton type dimension free Harnack inequality for the heat equation $\partial_t u=Lu$ associated with the time dependent Witten Laplacian on complete Riemannian manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-19 Songzi Li , Xiang-Dong Li

In this paper, we consider solutions of the backward heat equation with Ricci flow on manifolds as a type of infinite dimensional limit of solutions of a wave equation on a larger manifold with an analysis of wavefront set. Specifically,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-07 Jie Xu

In this paper, motivated by the works of Bakry et. al in finding sharp Li-Yau type gradient estimate for positive solutions of the heat equation on complete Riemannian manifolds with nonzero Ricci curvature lower bound, we first introduce a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-30 Chengjie Yu , Feifei Zhao

In this paper we prove some Hamilton type and Li-Yau type gradient estimates on positive solutions to generalized nonlinear parabolic equations on smooth metric measure space with compact boundary. The geometry of the space in terms of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Abimbola Abolarinwa

We generalize Hamilton's matrix Li-Yau-type Harnack estimate for the Ricci flow by considering the space of all LYH (Li-Yau-Hamilton) quadratics that arise as curvature tensors of space-time connections satisfying the Ricci flow with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bennett Chow , Dan Knopf

This is the first of a series of papers, where we introduce a new class of estimates for the Ricci flow, and use them both to characterize solutions of the Ricci flow and to provide a notion of weak solutions to the Ricci flow in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-06 Robert Haslhofer , Aaron Naber

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

In this article we derive Harnack estimates for conjugate heat kernel in an abstract geometric flow. Our calculation involves a correction term D. When D is nonnegative, we are able to obtain a Harnack inequality. Our abstract formulation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Xiaodong Cao , Hongxin Guo , Hung Tran

We announce a new proof of the uniform estimate on the curvature of solutions to the Ricci flow on a compact K\"ahler manifold $M^n$ with positive bisectional curvature. In contrast to the recent work of X. Chen and G. Tian, our proof of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Huai-Dong Cao , Bing-Long Chen , Xi-Ping Zhu

We prove matrix Li-Yau-Hamilton estimates for positive solutions to the heat equation and the backward conjugate heat equation, both coupled with the K\"ahler-Ricci flow. As an application, we obtain a monotonicity formula.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Xiaolong Li , Hao-Yue Liu , Xin-An Ren

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

Let $M$ be a closed Riemannian manifold with a family of Riemannian metrics $g_{ij}(t)$ evolving by geometric flow $\partial_{t}g_{ij} = -2{S}_{ij}$, where $S_{ij}(t)$ is a family of smooth symmetric two-tensors on $M$. In this paper we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-19 Hongxin Guo , Masashi Ishida

In this paper we study the heat equation (of Hodge-Laplacian) deformation of $(p, p)$-forms on a K\"ahler manifold. After identifying the condition and establishing that the positivity of a $(p, p)$-form solution is preserved under such an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Lei Ni , Yanyan Niu

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

Let $M$ be a closed Riemannian manifold with a family of Riemannian metrics $g_{ij}(t)$ evolving by a geometric flow $\partial_{t}g_{ij} = -2{S}_{ij}$, where $S_{ij}(t)$ is a family of smooth symmetric two-tensors. We derive several…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-19 Hongxin Guo , Masashi Ishida

In this paper, we prove logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and derive the Hamilton Harnack inequality for the heat semigroup of the Witten Laplacian on complete Riemannian manifolds equipped with $K$-super Perelman Ricci flow. We establish…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-09 Songzi Li , Xiang-Dong Li