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In this paper, we first prove a localized Hamilton-type gradient estimate for the positive solutions of Porous Media type equations: $$u_t=\Delta F(u),$$ with $F'(u) > 0$, on a complete Riemannian manifold with Ricci curvature bounded from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-09 Xiangjin Xu

We characterize lower bounds for the Bakry-Emery Ricci tensor of nonsymmetric diffusion operators by convexity of entropy on the $L^2$-Wasserstein space, and define a curvature-dimension condition for general metric measure spaces together…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Christian Ketterer

We prove the existence and uniqueness of entropy solutions for nonlinear diffusion equations with nonlinear conservative gradient noise. As particular applications our results include stochastic porous media equations, as well as the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Konstantinos Dareiotis , Benjamin Gess

The exponential decay of the relative entropy associated to a fully discrete porous-medium equation in one space dimension is shown by means of a discrete Bakry-Emery approach. The first ingredient of the proof is an abstract discrete…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Ansgar Jüngel , Stefan Schuchnigg

The time decay of fully discrete finite-volume approximations of porous-medium and fast-diffusion equations with Neumann or periodic boundary conditions is proved in the entropy sense. The algebraic or exponential decay rates are computed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-18 Claire Chainais-Hillairet , Ansgar Jüngel , Stefan Schuchnigg

The problem of deriving a gradient flow structure for the porous medium equation which is {\em thermodynamic}, in that it arises from the large deviations of some microscopic particle system, is studied. To this end, a rescaled zero-range…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Benjamin Gess , Daniel Heydecker

We consider a slow diffusion equation with a singular quenching term, extending the mathematical treatment made in 1992 by B. Kawohl and R. Kersner for the one-dimensional case. Besides the existence of a very weak solution, we prove some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Nguyen Anh Dao , Jesús Ildefonso Díaz , Quan Ba Hong Nguyen

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…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Jingxu Liu , Zhen Wang

In this paper, we extend the Hamilton's gradient estimates \cite{har93} and a monotonicity formula of entropy \cite{ni04} for heat flows from smooth Riemannian manifolds to (non-smooth) metric measure spaces with appropriate Riemannian…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Renjin Jiang , Huichun Zhang

In this article we present new gradient estimates for positive solutions to a class of nonlinear elliptic equations involving the f-Laplacian on a smooth metric measure space. The gradient estimates of interest are of Souplet-Zhang and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Ali Taheri , Vahideh Vahidifar

We consider on Riemannian manifolds solutions of the Leibenson equation \begin{equation*} \partial _{t}u=\Delta _{p}u^{q}. \end{equation*} This equation is also known as doubly nonlinear evolution equation. We prove gradient estimates for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Philipp Sürig

In this paper we derive Cheng-Yau, Li-Yau, Hamilton estimates for Riemannian manifolds with Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature bounded from below, and also global and local upper bounds, in terms of Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature, for the Hessian of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-03 Yi Li

Riemannian diffusion models draw inspiration from standard Euclidean space diffusion models to learn distributions on general manifolds. Unfortunately, the additional geometric complexity renders the diffusion transition term inexpressible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Aaron Lou , Minkai Xu , Stefano Ermon

In this survey paper, we give an overview of our recent works on the study of the $W$-entropy for the heat equation associated with the Witten Laplacian on super-Ricci flows and the Langevin deformation on Wasserstein space over Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Songzi Li , Xiang-Dong Li

We present new gradient estimates and Harnack inequalities for positive solutions to nonlinear slow diffusion equations. The framework is that of a smooth metric measure space $(\mathscr M,g,d\mu)$ with invariant weighted measure…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Ali Taheri , Vahideh Vahidifar

We investigate the $m$-relative entropy, which stems from the Bregman divergence, on weighted Riemannian and Finsler manifolds. We prove that the displacement $K$-convexity of the $m$-relative entropy is equivalent to the combination of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-05 Shin-ichi Ohta , Asuka Takatsu

We prove duality estimates for time-fractional and more general subdiffusion problems. An important example is given by subdiffusive porous medium type equations. Our estimates can be used to prove uniqueness of weak solutions to such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Arlúcio Viana , Patryk Wolejko , Rico Zacher

In this note we present some gradient estimates for the diffusion equation $\partial_t u=\Delta u-\nabla \phi \cdot \nabla u $ on Riemannian manifolds, where $\phi $ is a C^2 function, which generalize estimates of R. Hamilton's and Qi S.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-24 Hong Huang

Given a complete, connected Riemannian manifold $ \mathbb{M}^n $ with Ricci curvature bounded from below, we discuss the stability of the solutions of a porous medium-type equation with respect to the 2-Wasserstein distance. We produce…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Nicolò De Ponti , Matteo Muratori , Carlo Orrieri

We derive a priori estimates for the compressible free-boundary Euler equations with surface tension in three spatial dimensions in the case of a liquid. These are estimates for local existence in Lagrangian coordinates when the initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Marcelo M. Disconzi , Igor Kukavica