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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…
We prove a global Li-Yau inequality for a general Markov semigroup under a curvature-dimension condition. This inequality is stronger than all classical Li-Yau type inequalities known to us. On a Riemannian manifold, it is equivalent to a…
We calculate heat invariants of arbitrary Riemannian manifolds without boundary. Every heat invariant is expressed in terms of powers of the Laplacian and the distance function. Our approach is based on a multi-dimensional generalization of…
We show that, on a complete, connected and non-compact Riemannian manifold of non-negative Ricci curvature, the solution to the heat equation with $L^{1}$ initial data behaves asymptotically as the mass times the heat kernel. In contrast to…
By leveraging a new Laplacian comparison theorem, we derive a Li-Yau type gradient estimate for a particular nonlinear parabolic equation, namely, the Finslerian logarithmic Schrodinger equation on a non-compact, complete Finsler manifold…
We consider the stochastic heat equation on a compact smooth Riemannian manifold without boundary satisfying \begin{equation*} \partial_tu(t,x)=\frac{1}{2}\Delta_Mu(t,x)+\sigma(t,x,u)\dot{W}(t,x),\quad (t,x)\in\mathbb{R}_+\times M,…
We study the solvability of the initial value problem for the semilinear heat equation $u_t-\Delta u=u^p$ in a Riemannian manifold $M$ with a nonnegative Radon measure $\mu$ on $M$ as initial data. We give sharp conditions on the…
In this paper, we investigate positive solutions to a class of Laplace equations with a gradient term on a complete, connected, and noncompact Riemannian manifold \((M^n,g)\) with nonnegative Ricci curvature, namely \[-\Delta u =…
The present paper solves completely the problem of the group classification of nonlinear heat-conductivity equations of the form\ $u_{t}=F(t,x,u,u_{x})u_{xx} + G(t,x,u,u_{x})$. We have proved, in particular, that the above class contains no…
In this short note, we use a unified method to consider the gradient estimates of the positive solution to the following nonlinear elliptic equation $\Delta u + au^{p+1}=0$ defined on a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$ where…
A preliminary group classification of the class 2D nonlinear heat equations $u_t=f(x,y,u,u_x,u_y)(u_{xx}+u_{yy})$, where $f$ is arbitrary smooth function of the variables $x,y,u,u_x$ and $u_y$ using Lie method, is given. The paper is one of…
In this paper, we study the partial convexity of smooth solutions to the heat equation on a compact or complete non-compact Riemannian manifold M or Kahler-Ricci flow. We show that under a natural assumption, a new partial convexity…
In this paper, we consider the weighted $p$-Laplacian equation $$ \Delta_{p,f}u+au^{\sigma}\ln u=0$$ defined on a complete smooth metric measure space under the conditon that the $m$-Bakry-\'{E}mery Ricci curvature has a lower bound, where…
When the domain is a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Bakry--Emery Ricci curvature and the target is a complete Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature bounded above by a positive constant, by carrying out…
In this paper we study the existence of solutions for a class of non-linear differential equation on compact Riemannian manifolds. We establish a lower and upper solutions' method to show the existence of a smooth positive solution for the…
We first prove stochastic representation formulae for space-time harmonic mappings defined on manifolds with evolving Riemannian metric. We then apply these formulae to derive Liouville type theorems under appropriate curvature conditions.…
In this work we establish a gradient bound and Liouville-type theorems for solutions to Quasi-linear elliptic equations on compact Riemannian Manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. Also, we provide a local splitting theorem when the…
We prove a generalization of the Li-Yau estimate for a board class of second order linear parabolic equations. As a consequence, we obtain a new Cheeger-Yau inequality and a new Harnack inequality for these equations. We also prove a…
In the current paper,under the transverse Ricci flow on a totally geodesic Riemannian foliation, we prove two types of differential Harnack inequalities (Li-Yau gradient estimate) for the positive solutions of the heat equation associated…
We introduce a new method for computing the heat invariants of a 2-dimensional Riemannian manifold based on a result by S.Agmon and Y.Kannai. Two explicit expressions for the heat invariants are presented. The first one depends on the…