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In this manuscript, we extend the global gradient estimates for positive solutions to the heat equation under a general compact Finsler $CD(-K,N)$ geometric flow and derive the corresponding Harnack inequality.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Bin Shen

The paper considers a manifold $M$ evolving under the Ricci flow and establishes a series of gradient estimates for positive solutions of the heat equation on $M$. Among other results, we prove Li-Yau-type inequalities in this context. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-04 Mihai Bailesteanu , Xiaodong Cao , Artem Pulemotov

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…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Qi Feng

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

Based on gradient estimates for the heat equation by Hamilton, we discover a backward in time Harnack inequality for positive solutions on compact manifolds without further restrictions such as boundedness or vanishing boundary value for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Juanling Lu , Yuting Wu , Qi S. Zhang

We prove constrained trace, matrix and constrained matrix Harnack inequalities for the nonlinear heat equation $\omega_t=\Delta\omega+a\omega\ln \omega$ on closed manifolds. We also derive a new interpolated Harnack inequality for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Jia-Yong Wu

We develop estimates for the solutions and derive existence and uniqueness results of various local boundary value problems for Dirac equations that improve all relevant results known in the literature. With these estimates at hand, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-12 Qun Chen , Jürgen Jost , Linlin Sun , Miaomiao Zhu

In this paper, we consider the Laplacian G_2 flow on a closed seven-dimensional manifold M with a closed G_2-structure. We first obtain the gradient estimates of positive solutions of the heat equation under the Laplacian G_2 flow and then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Chuanhuan Li , Yi Li , Kairui Xu

This article is devoted to the study of several estimations for a positive solution to a nonlinear weighted parabolic equation on a weighted Riemannian manifold. We therefore derive new Li-Yau type and Hamilton type gradient estimates…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-27 Shyamal Kumar Hui , Abimbola Abolarinwa , Sujit Bhattacharyya

In this paper, we study the gradient estimates of Li-Yau-Hamilton type for positive solutions to both drifting heat equation and the simple nonlinear heat equation problem $$ u_t-\Delta u=au\log u, \ \ u>0 $$ on the compact Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Li Ma

We present an analysis on the convergence properties of the so-called geometric heat flow equation for computing geodesics (extremal curves) on Riemannian manifolds. Computing geodesics numerically in real time has become an important…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Samuel G. Gessow , Brett T. Lopez

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 we study gradient estimates for the positive solutions of the porous medium equation: $$u_t=\Delta u^m$$ where $m>1$, which is a nonlinear version of the heat equation. We derive local gradient estimates of the Li-Yau type for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-14 Guangyue Huang , Zhijie Huang , Haizhong Li

We establish a connection between a sharp double-sided Harnack bound for positive solutions of a fractional heat equation and the circular geometry in higher dimensions. The present work extends and generalizes the results obtained in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Mateusz Dembny , Mikołaj Sierżęga

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

In this paper we consider the class $\mathcal{A}$ of those solutions $u(x,t)$ to the conjugate heat equation $\frac{d}{dt}u = -\Delta u + Ru$ on compact K\"ahler manifolds $M$ with $c_1 > 0$ (where $g(t)$ changes by the unnormalized…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Richard Hamilton , Natasa Sesum

We obtain Harnack estimates for a class of curvature flows in Riemannian manifolds of constant non-negative sectional curvature as well as in the Lorentzian Minkowski and de Sitter spaces. Furthermore, we prove a Harnack estimate with a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Paul Bryan , Mohammad N. Ivaki , Julian Scheuer

We prove certain localized and global differential Harnack inequality for all positive solutions to the geometric conjugate heat equation coupled to the forward in time Ricci flow. In this case, the diffusion operator is perturbed with the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-04 Abimbola Abolarinwa

In this paper we are concerned with the matrix Li-Yau-Hamilton estimates for nonlinear heat equations. Firstly, we derive such estimate on a K\"{a}hler manifold with a fixed K\"{a}hler metric. Then we consider the estimate on K\"{a}hler…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Xin-An Ren

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