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In this paper, we remove the assumption on the gradient of the Ricci curvature in Hamilton's matrix Harnack estimate for the heat equation on all closed manifolds, answering a question which has been around since the 1990s. New ingredients…

This article presents new local and global gradient estimates of Li-Yau type for positive solutions to a class of nonlinear elliptic equations on smooth metric measure spaces involving the Witten Laplacian. The estimates are derived under…

In this paper, motivated by the works of Bakry et. al in finding sharp Li-Yau type gradient estimate for positive solutions of the heat equation on complete Riemannian manifolds with nonzero Ricci curvature lower bound, we first introduce a…

We prove a Li-Yau gradient estimate for positive solutions to the heat equation, with Neumann boundary conditions, on a compact Riemannian submanifold with boundary ${\bf M}^n\subseteq {\bf N}^n$, satisfying the integral Ricci curvature…

This article presents new parabolic and elliptic type gradient estimates for positive smooth solutions to a nonlinear parabolic equation involving the Witten Laplacian in the context of smooth metric measure spaces. The metric and potential…

We prove an estimate for solutions to the linearized Ricci flow system on closed 3-manifolds. This estimate is a generalization of Hamilton's pinching is preserved estimate for the Ricci curvatures of solutions to the Ricci flow on…

By leveraging a new Laplacian comparison theorem, we derive a Li-Yau type gradient estimate for a particular nonlinear parabolic equation, namely, the Finslerian logarithmic Schrodinger equation on a non-compact, complete Finsler manifold…

In this paper, we will recover Hamilton's Harnack inequality for the Ricci flow from the view point of Hyperbolic thermostat.

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…

We provide a proof that nonholonomically constrained Ricci flows of (pseudo) Riemannian metrics positively result into nonsymmetric metrics (as explicit examples, we consider flows of some physically valuable exact solutions in general…

We announce a new proof of the uniform estimate on the curvature of solutions to the Ricci flow on a compact K\"ahler manifold $M^n$ with positive bisectional curvature. In contrast to the recent work of X. Chen and G. Tian, our proof of…

We prove matrix Li-Yau-Hamilton estimates for positive solutions to the heat equation and the backward conjugate heat equation, both coupled with the K\"ahler-Ricci flow. As an application, we obtain a monotonicity formula.

We give a geometric interpretation of the linear trace Harnack inequality for the Ricci flow.

In a number of physically important cases, the nonholonomically (nonintegrable) constrained Ricci flows can be modelled by exact solutions of Einstein equations with nonhomogeneous (anisotropic) cosmological constants. We develop two…

In this paper, we prove logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and derive the Hamilton Harnack inequality for the heat semigroup of the Witten Laplacian on complete Riemannian manifolds equipped with $K$-super Perelman Ricci flow. We establish…

Gradient inequalities of the Hamilton type and the Li-Yau type for positive solutions to the heat equation are established from a probabilistic viewpoint, which simplifies the proofs of some results of Sun [{\it Pacific J. Math.}, 253…

We consider viscosity solutions to nonlinear uniformly parabolic equations in nondivergence form on a Riemannian manifold $M$, with the sectional curvature bounded from below by $-\kappa$ for $\kappa\geq 0$. In the elliptic case, Wang and…

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.

We introduce the notion of Canonical Expanding Ricci Soliton, and use it to derive new Harnack inequalities for Ricci flow. This viewpoint also gives geometric insight into the existing Harnack inequalities of Hamilton and Brendle.

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…