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In this paper, we introduce the regularized conformal heat flow of $n$-harmonic maps, or simply regularized $n$-conformal heat flow from $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold. This is a system of evolution equations combined with regularized…

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Hamilton's pinching conjecture, that three-dimensional complete non-compact manifolds with pinched Ricci curvature are flat, has recently been resolved using Ricci flow. In this paper we prove a direct analogue of that result in all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Alix Deruelle , Man-Chun Lee , Felix Schulze , Miles Simon , Peter M. Topping

We study entire solutions of the biharmonic heat equation on complete Riemannian manifolds without boundary. We provide exponential decay estimates for the biharmonic heat kernel under assumptions on the lower bound of Ricci curvature and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Fei He

We give the global picture of the normalized Ricci flow on generalized flag manifolds with two or three isotropy summands. The normalized Ricci flow for these spaces descents to a parameter depending system of two or three ordinary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-25 Stavros Anastassiou , Ioannis Chrysikos

We establish a one-parameter family of Harnack inequalities connecting the constrained trace Li-Yau differential Harnack inequality for a nonlinear parabolic equation to the constrained trace Chow-Hamilton Harnack inequality for this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-23 Jia-Yong Wu

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

This is the second part of a two parts work on the analysis of heat-type equations on manifolds with fibered boundary equipped with a $\Phi$-metric. This setting generalizes the asymptotically conical (scattering) spaces and includes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Bruno Caldeira , Giuseppe Gentile

We prove global and local upper bounds for the Hessian of log positive solutions of the heat equation on a Riemannian manifold. The metric is either fixed or evolves under the Ricci flow. These upper bounds supplement the well-known global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-13 Qing Han , Qi S Zhang

In this paper, by employ the cutoff function and the maximum principle, some Hamilton-Souplet-Zhang type gradient estimates for porous medium type equation are deduced. As a special case, an Hamilton-Souplet-Zhang type gradient estimates of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-26 Wen Wang

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 work we study properties of stability and non-stability of harmonic maps under the homogeneous Ricci flow. We provide examples where the stability (non-stability) is preserved under the Ricci flow and an example where the Ricci flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-23 Rafaela F. do Prado , Lino Grama

Let $(M,g)$ be a four dimensional compact Riemannian manifold with boundary and $(N,h)$ be a compact Riemannian manifold without boundary. We show the existence of a unique, global weak solution of the heat flow of extrinsic biharmonic maps…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-01 Tao Huang , Lei Liu , Yong Luo , Changyou Wang

We consider the Ricci flow equation for invariant metrics on compact and connected homogeneous spaces whose isotropy representation decomposes into two irreducible inequivalent summands. By studying the corresponding dynamical system, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-17 Maria Buzano

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

In this short note we present local derivative estimates for heat equations on Riemannian manifolds following the line of W.-X. Shi. As an application we generalize a second derivative estimate of R. Hamilton for heat equations on compact…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hong Huang

Let $(\M^n, g_{ij})$ be a complete Riemammnian manifold. For some constants $p,\ r>0$, define $\displaystyle k(p,r)=\sup_{x\in M}r^2\left(\oint_{B(x,r)}|Ric^-|^p dV\right)^{1/p}$, where $Ric^-$ denotes the negative part of the Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-21 Qi S Zhang , Meng Zhu

We consider the 1-harmonic flow of maps from a bounded domain into a submanifold of a Euclidean space, i.e. the gradient flow of the total variation functional restricted to maps taking values in the manifold. We restrict ourselves to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Lorenzo Giacomelli , Michał Łasica , Salvador Moll

In this paper, we continue to study the generalized Ricci flow. We give a criterion on steady gradient Ricci soliton on complete and noncompact Riemannian manifolds that is Ricci-flat, and then introduce a natural flow whose stable points…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Yi Li

We prove differential Harnack inequalities for flows of strictly convex hypersurfaces by powers $p$, $0<p<1$, of the mean curvature in Einstein manifolds with a positive lower bound on the sectional curvature. We assume that this lower…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Paul Bryan , Heiko Kröner , Julian Scheuer

In this paper, we study the gradient estimates for the positive solutions of the weighted porous medium equation $$\Delta u^{m}=\delta(x)u_{t}+\psi u^{m}$$ on graphs for $m>1$, which is a nonlinear version of the heat equation. Moreover, as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Shoudong Man