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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

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…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-09 Sebastian Helmensdorfer , Peter Topping

We prove several differential Harnack inequalities for positive solutions to nonlinear backward heat equations with different potentials coupled with the Ricci flow. We also derive an interpolated Harnack inequality for the nonlinear heat…

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

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

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

In this paper, we prove two-sided heat kernel estimates on what we call "book-like" graphs. These are graphs consisting of pieces that satisfy the parabolic Harnack inequality that are glued together in a sufficiently nice way over a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Emily Dautenhahn , Laurent Saloff-Coste

In this paper, we derive a gradient estimate for the linear combinations of eigenforms of the Hodge Laplacian on a closed manifold. The estimate is given in terms of the dimension, volume, diameter and curvature bound of the manifold. As an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-11 Jiaping Wang , Linfeng Zhou

On a large class of Riemannian manifolds with boundary, some dimension-free Harnack inequalities for the Neumann semigroup is proved to be equivalent to the convexity of the boundary and a curvature condition. In particular, for $p_t(x,y)$…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-11-02 Feng-Yu Wang

We obtain sharp estimates for heat kernels and Green's functions on complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds with Euclidean volume growth and nonnegative Ricci curvature. We will then apply these estimates to obtain sharp Moser-Trudinger…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Luigi Fontana , Carlo Morpurgo , Liuyu Qin

Let $(M,g(t))$ be a solution to the Ricci flow on a closed Riemannian manifold. In this paper, we prove differential Harnack inequalities for positive solutions of nonlinear parabolic equations of the type $$\ppt f=\Delta f-f \ln f +Rf.$$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-04 Xiaodong Cao , Zhou Zhang

In this article we establish the optimal $C^s$ boundary regularity for solutions to nonlocal parabolic equations in divergence form in $C^{1,\alpha}$ domains and prove a higher order boundary Harnack principle in this setting. Our approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Philipp Svinger , Marvin Weidner

We study pointwise and $L^p$ gradient estimates of the heat kernel, on manifolds that may have some amount of negative Ricci curvature, provided it is not too negative (in an integral sense) at infinity. We also prove uniform boundedness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Baptiste Devyver

In this article, we prove a general and rather flexible upper bound for the heat kernel of a weighted heat operator on a closed manifold evolving by an intrinsic geometric flow. The proof is based on logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Reto Buzano , Louis Yudowitz

We obtain matching two sided estimates of the heat kernel on a connected sum of parabolic manifolds, each of them satisfying the Li-Yau estimate. The key result is the on-diagonal upper bound of the heat kernel at a central point. Contrary…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-05 Alexander Grigor'yan , Satoshi Ishiwata , Laurent Saloff-Coste

By constructing a coupling with unbounded time-dependent drift, dimension-free Harnack inequalities are established for a large class of stochastic differential equations with multiplicative noise. These inequalities are applied to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-11-20 Feng-Yu Wang

We develop connections between Harnack inequalities for the heat flow of diffusion operators with curvature bounded from below and optimal transportation. Through heat kernel inequalities, a new isoperimetric-type Harnack inequality is…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-09 Dominique Bakry , Ivan Gentil , Michel Ledoux

In this paper, we consider the following symmetric non-local Dirichlet forms of pure jump type on metric measure space $(M,d,\mu)$: $$\mathcal{E}(f,g)=\int_{M\times M} (f(x)-f(y))(g(x)-g(y))\,J(dx,dy),$$ where $J(dx,dy)$ is a symmetric…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-08-22 Zhen-Qing Chen , Takashi Kumagai , Jian Wang

Let $(X,d,\mu)$ be a $RCD^\ast(K, N)$ space with $K\in \mathbb{R}$ and $N\in [1,\infty]$. For $N\in [1,\infty)$, we derive the upper and lower bounds of the heat kernel on $(X,d,\mu)$ by applying the parabolic Harnack inequality and the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-02 Renjin Jiang , Huaiqian Li , Huichun Zhang

We consider the evolution of hypersurfaces on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n+1}$ by their mean curvature. We prove a differential Harnack inequality for any weakly convex solution to the mean curvature flow. As an application, by applying…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-10 Paul Bryan , Mohammad N. Ivaki

In the sub-Riemannian manifolds, on the one hand, following Baudoin-Garofalo \cite{BaudoinGarofalo}, the upper bound for heat kernels associated to a class of locally subelliptic operators are given under the generalized curvature-dimension…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Huai Qian LI