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In this paper, we will study the (linear) geometric analysis on metric measure spaces. We will establish a local Li-Yau's estimate for weak solutions of the heat equation and prove a sharp Yau's gradient gradient for harmonic functions on…

In this paper we give Hamilton's Laplacian estimates for the heat equation on complete noncompact manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. As an application, combining Li-Yau's lower and upper bounds of the heat kernel, we give an…

In this paper, we firstly establish weighted heat kernel comparison theorems for the weighted heat equation on complete manifolds with radial curvatures bounded, and then by mainly using this conclusion, we can obtain two eigenvalue…

In this paper, the author considers the fractional mean field equation on a finite graph $G=(V,E)$, say \begin{equation*} (-\Delta)^s u=\rho\left(\dfrac{he^u}{\int_V he^ud\mu}-\dfrac{1}{|V|}\right),\quad\forall\,x\in V, \end{equation*}…

We establish in the present paper two sub-gradient estimates for the quaternionic contact (qc) heat equation on a compact qc manifold of dimension $4n+3$, provided some positivity conditions are satisfied. These are qc versions of the…

We prove the following sharp upper bound for the gradient of the Neumann semigroup $P_t$ on a $d$-dimensional compact domain $\OO$ with boundary either $C^2$-smooth or convex: $$\|\nn P_t\|_{1\to \infty}\le \ff{c}{t^{(d+1)/2}},\ \ t>0,$$…

A theory of graded manifolds can be viewed as a generalization of differential geometry of smooth manifolds. It allows one to work with functions which locally depend not only on ordinary real variables, but also on $\mathbb{Z}$-graded…

This paper addresses the study of derivative-free smooth optimization problems, where the gradient information on the objective function is unavailable. Two novel general derivative-free methods are proposed and developed for minimizing…

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…

This paper reconsiders the uniform sublevel set estimates of Carbery, Christ, and Wright (1999) and Phong, Stein, and Sturm (2001) from a geometric perspective. This perspective leads one to consider a natural collection of homogeneous,…

We prove a Liouville type theorem for entire maximal $m$-subharmonic functions in $\mathbb C^n$ with bounded gradient. This result, coupled with a standard blow-up argument, yields a (non-explicit) a priori gradient estimate for the complex…

Sub-Gaussian heat kernel estimates are typical of fractal graphs. We show that sub-Gaussian estimates on graphs follow from a Poincar\'e inequality, capacity upper bound, and a slow volume growth condition. An important feature of this work…

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…

A uniform gradient for functions u which satisfy a system of N second-order partial differential inequalities is given in this paper. Some structure conditions are given for the coefficients of the matrices of second-order terms and of…

Let $(M^n, g, e^{-f}dv)$ be a smooth metric measure space of dimensional $n$. Suppose that $v$ is a positive weighted $p$-eigenfunctions associated to the eigenvalues $\lambda_{1,p}$ on $M$, namely $$ e^{f}div(e^{-f}|\nabla v|^{p-2}\nabla…

This paper discusses the existence of gradient estimates for second order hypoelliptic heat kernels on manifolds. It is now standard that such inequalities, in the elliptic case, are equivalent to a lower bound on the Ricci tensor of the…

In this paper we consider the gradient estimates on positive solutions to the following elliptic (Lichnerowicz) equation defined on a complete Riemannian manifold $(M,\,g)$: $$\Delta v + \mu v + a v^{p+1} +b v^{-q+1} =0,$$ where $p\geq-1$,…

We show the existence of the scaling exponent $\chi\in (0,4[(1+\gamma^2/4)- \sqrt{1+\gamma^4/16}]/\gamma^2]$ of the graph distance associated with subcritical two-dimensional Liouville quantum gravity of paramater $\gamma<2$ on $\mathbb V…

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…

We obtain a Li-Yau-type estimate for nonnegative ancient solutions to the subcritical semilinear heat equation $\frac{\p u}{\p t}=\De u+u^p$ in $\rz^n\times(-\infty,0)$. Then, we combine the Li-Yau type estimate and Melre-Zaag's result to…