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In this short note, we hope to give a rapid induction for non-experts into the world of Differential Harnack inequalities, which have been so influential in geometric analysis and probability theory over the past few decades. At the…

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In this paper, we carry out in-depth research centering around the Harnack inequality for positive solutions to nonlinear heat equation on Finsler metric measure manifolds with weighted Ricci curvature ${\rm Ric}_{\infty}$ bounded below.…

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In this paper we study the heat equation (of Hodge-Laplacian) deformation of $(p, p)$-forms on a K\"ahler manifold. After identifying the condition and establishing that the positivity of a $(p, p)$-form solution is preserved under such an…

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We present two approaches to the heat flow on a Finsler manifold $(M,F)$: either as gradient flow on $L^2(M,m)$ for the energy; or as gradient flow on the reverse $L^2$-Wasserstein space $\mathcal{P}_2(M)$ of probability measures on $M$ for…

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The goal of this paper is to obtain estimates for nonnegative solutions of the differential inequality $$\left(\frac{\partial}{\partial t} - \Delta\right) u \leq A u^p + B u $$ with small initial data in borderline Morrey norms over a…

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In this paper, we establish Li-Yau-type and Hamilton-type estimates for positive solutions to the heat equation associated with the generalized Ricci flow, under a less stringent curvature condition. Compared with [25] and [35], these…

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In this paper, we derive local and global Li-Yau type gradient estimates for the positive solutions of the CR heat equation on complete noncompact pseudo-Hermitian manifolds. As applications of the gradient estimates, we give a Harnack…

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In this paper we prove matrix Li-Yau-Hamilton estimates for positive solutions to the heat equation and the backward conjugate heat equation, both coupled with the Ricci flow. We then apply such estimates to establish the monotonicity of…

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