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Given any closed Riemannian manifold $M$, we construct a reversible diffusion process on the space ${\mathcal P}(M)$ of probability measures on $M$ that is (i) reversible w.r.t.~the entropic measure ${\mathbb P}^\beta$ on ${\mathcal P}(M)$,…

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We give a proof of Gaussian upper bound for the heat kernel coupled with the Ricci ow. Previous proofs by Lei Ni [5] use Harnack inequality and doubling volume property, also the recent proof by Zhang and Cao [6] uses Sobolev type…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-12-21 Koléhé Abdoulaye Coulibaly-Pasquier

In this work, we investigate the heat flow of two interacting quantum systems on the perspective of noncommutativity phase-space effects and show that by controlling the new constants introduced in the quantum theory, due to a deformed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 Jonas F. G. Santos

In this paper, we derive a Sobolev inequality along an extended Ricci flow and prove a point-wise Guassian type bound for the fundamental solutions of the conjugate heat equation under the flow.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Xian-Gao Liu , Kui Wang

We derive the law of entropy non-decrease directly from the Kelvin-Planck principle for simple and compound systems without using the Clausius inequality. A key of the derivation is a new formulation of entropy in terms of work by a Carnot…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-21 Yuki Izumida

This paper first proposes a new approximate scheme to construct a harmonic heat flow $u$ between a parabolic cylinder to a sphere. Y.Chen and M.Struwe have proved an existence and discussed a partial regularity of harmonic heat flows by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-13 Kazuhiro Horihata

Within the FTBDNK family of formulations of relativistic Navier-Stokes (H. Freist\"uhler and B. Temple, Proc. R. Soc. A 470, 20140055 (2014), Proc. R. Soc. A 473 (2017), 20160729; F. S. Bemfica, M. Disconzi, and J. Noronha, Phys. Rev. D 98,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Heinrich Freistuhler

Perelman has given a gradient formulation for the Ricci flow, introducing an ``entropy function'' which increases monotonically along the flow.We pursue a thermodynamic analogy and apply Ricci flow ideas to general relativity. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Joseph Samuel , Sutirtha Roy Chowdhury

We study the geometry associated to the Grusin operator G=\Delta_{x}+|x|^{2}\partial_{u}^{2} on \mathbb{R}_{x}^{n}\times\mathbb{R}_{u}, to obtain heat kernel estimates for this operator. The main work is to find the shortest geodesics…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-08 Martin Paulat

We show how using a special relativistic kinetic equation with a BGK- like collision operator the ensuing expression for the heat flux can be casted in the form required by Classical Irreversible Thermodynamics. Indeed, it is linearly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-12 A. Sandoval-Villalbazo , A. L. Garcia-Perciante , L. S. Garcia-Colin

We prove that the correspondence between Reeb and Beltrami vector fields can be made equivariant whenever additional symmetries of the underlying geometric structures are considered. As a corollary of this correspondence, we show that…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Josep Fontana-McNally , Eva Miranda , Daniel Peralta-Salas

The purpose of this article is to expose and further develop a simple yet surprisingly far-reaching framework for generating monotone quantities for positive solutions to linear heat equations in euclidean space. This framework is…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Jonathan Bennett , Neal Bez

We reconsider general aspects of Galilean-invariant thermal field theory. Using the proposal of our companion paper, we recast non-relativistic hydrodynamics in a manifestly covariant way and couple it to a background spacetime. We examine…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Kristan Jensen

As a generalization to the heat semigroup on the Heisenberg group, the diffusion semigroup generated by the subelliptic operator $L:=\ff 1 2 \sum_{i=1}^m X_i^2$ on $\R^{m+d}:= \R^m\times\R^d$ is investigated, where $$X_i(x,y)= \sum_{k=1}^m…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-15 Feng-Yu Wang

A novel equation of heat conduction is derived with the help of a generalized entropy current and internal variables. The obtained system of constitutive relations is compatible with the momentum series expansion of the kinetic theory. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-16 R. Kovács , P. Ván

This article is concerned with the existence of nonnegative weak solutions to a particular fourth-order partial differential equation: it is a formal gradient flow with respect to a generalized Wasserstein transportation distance with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-07 Jonathan Zinsl

We first generalize a decomposition of functions on Carnot groups as linear combinations of the Dirac delta and some of its derivatives, where the weights are the moments of the function. We then use the decomposition to describe the large…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-11 Francesco Rossi

In this note, we derive a new logarithmic Sobolev inequality for the heat kernel on the Heisenberg group. The proof is inspired from the historical method of Leonard Gross with the Central Limit Theorem for a random walk. Here the non…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Michel Bonnefont , Djalil Chafaï , Ronan Herry

We study entropy and optimal transport theory in the free probabilistic setting motivated by the large-$n$ theory of random tuples of matrices. We define a new version of free entropy $\chi_{\operatorname{chron}}^{\mathcal{U}}$, which is…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2026-04-15 David Jekel

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