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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Giulio Ciraolo , Alberto Farina , Camilla Chiara Polvara

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…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Iosif Polterovich

In this paper we study the parabolic evolution equation $\partial_t u=(|Du|^{2}+2|\det Du|)^{-1} \Delta u$, where $u : M\times[0,\infty) \to N$ is an evolving map between compact flat surfaces. We use a tensor maximum principle for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Ben Andrews , Anthony Carapetis

In this work we consider the non local evolution problem \[ \begin{cases} \partial_t u(x,t)=-u(x,t)+g(\beta K(f\circ u)(x,t)+\beta h), ~x \in\Omega, ~t\in[0,\infty[;\\ u(x,t)=0, ~x\in\mathbb{R}^N\setminus\Omega, ~t\in[0,\infty[;\\…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Severino H. da Silva , Antonio R. G. Garcia , Bruna E. P. Lucena

Let (M,g) be a smooth connected compact Riemannian manifold of finite dimension n \geq 2 with a smooth boundary \partial M. We consider the problem -{\epsilon}^2\Delta_gu+u=|u|^{p-2}u, u>0 on M, \partial u/ \partial{\nu}=0 on \partial M…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-30 Marco G. Ghimenti , Anna Maria Micheletti

We provide some Liouville theorems for ancient nonnegative solutions of the heat equation on a complete non-compact Riemannian manifold with Ricci curvature bounded from below. We determine growth conditions ensuring triviality of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Sunra Mosconi

Let $\Omega$ be an open set in a geodesically complete, non-compact, $m$-dimen-sional Riemannian manifold $M$ with non-negative Ricci curvature, and without boundary. We study the heat flow from $\Omega$ into $M-\Omega$ if the initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Michiel van den Berg

In this paper, we prove sharp gradient estimates for positive solutions to the weighted heat equation on smooth metric measure spaces with compact boundary. As an application, we prove Liouville theorems for ancient solutions satisfying the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-14 Ha Tuan Dung , Nguyen Thac Dung , Jia-Yong Wu

This manuscript is concerned with the evolution system \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} u_{ttt} + \alpha u_{tt} = \big(\gamma(\Theta) u_{xt}\big)_x + \big( \widehat{\gamma}(\Theta) u_x\big)_x, \Theta_t = D \Theta_{xx} + \Gamma(\Theta) u_{xt}^2,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Leander Claes , Michael Winkler

Let $\Omega$ be a compact Riemannian manifold with smooth boundary and let $u_t$ be the solution of the heat equation on $\Omega$, having constant unit initial data $u_0=1$ and Dirichlet boundary conditions ($u_t=0$ on the boundary, at all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Alessandro Savo

Let $(V,\mu)$ be an infinite, connected, locally finite weighted graph. We study the problem of existence or non-existence of positive solutions to a semi-linear elliptic inequality \begin{equation*} \Delta u+u^{\sigma}\leq0\quad…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Qingsong Gu , Xueping Huang , Yuhua Sun

Given a connected compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ without boundary, $\dim M\ge 2$, we consider a space--time fractional diffusion equation with an interior source that is supported on an open subset $V$ of the manifold. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Tapio Helin , Matti Lassas , Lauri Ylinen , Zhidong Zhang

We prove Li-Yau type gradient bounds for the heat equation either on manifolds with fixed metric or under the Ricci flow. In the former case the curvature condition is $|Ric^-| \in L^p$ for some $p>n/2$, or $\sup_\M \int_\M…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-30 Qi S Zhang , Meng Zhu

Let $N\ge 3$. We are concerned with a Cauchy problem of the semilinear heat equation \[ \begin{cases} \partial_tu-\Delta u=f(u), & x\in\mathbb{R}^N,\ t>0,\\ u(x,0)=u_0(x), & x\in\mathbb{R}^N, \end{cases} \] where $f(0)=0$, $f$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Kotaro Hisa , Yasuhito Miyamoto

In the paper, we show a global Carleman estimate for the non-local heat equation. To be more precise, let $\Omega\subset\RR^d$ be a bounded domain and $\CO\subset\Omega$ an open subdomain, $s\in(0,1)$. We show that there exist constants…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Erika Hausenblas , Debangana Mukherjee

We consider the nonlinear heat equation with a nonlinear gradient term: $\partial_t u =\Delta u+\mu|\nabla u|^q+|u|^{p-1}u,\; \mu>0,\; q=2p/(p+1),\; p>3,\; t\in (0,T),\; x\in \R^N.$ We construct a solution which blows up in finite time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-30 Slim Tayachi , Hatem Zaag

Recently, the Li-Yau-type gradient estimates for positive solutions to parabolic equations \begin{equation} \partial_t u=\Delta u+\mathcal{R}_1u+\mathcal{R}_2u^{\alpha}+\mathcal{R}_3u(\log u)^{\beta},\notag \end{equation} under the general…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Yijie Miao , Bin Shen

We introduce two flow approaches to the Loewner--Nirenberg problem on comapct Riemannian manifolds $(M^n,g)$ with boundary and establish the convergence of the corresponding Cauchy--Dirichlet problems to the solution of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Gang Li

In the first part of this paper, we get new Li-Yau type gradient estimates for positive solutions of heat equation on Riemmannian manifolds with $Ricci(M)\ge -k$, $k\in \mathbb R$. As applications, several parabolic Harnack inequalities are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-01-27 Junfang Li , Xiangjin Xu

In this paper, we establish a parabolic Harnack inequality for positive solutions of the $\phi$-heat equation and prove Gaussian upper and lower bounds for the $\phi$-heat kernel on weighted Riemannian manifolds under lower $N$-Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Wen-Qi Li , Zhikai Zhang