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In this note, we extend the rigidity of Cheng-Yau gradient estimate in \cite{HXY} to surfaces with lower Ricci curvature bound. Motivated by these sharp Cheng-Yau gradient estimates, pointwise Cheng-Yau gradient estimates for higher…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Qixuan Hu , Chengjie Yu

In this paper, we will establish an elliptic local Li-Yau gradient estimate for weak solutions of the heat equation on metric measure spaces with generalized Ricci curvature bounded from below. One of its main applications is a sharp…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-11 Jia-Cheng Huang , Hui-Chun Zhang

In this work we establish a gradient bound and Liouville-type theorems for solutions to Quasi-linear elliptic equations on compact Riemannian Manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. Also, we provide a local splitting theorem when the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Dimitrios Gazoulis , George Zacharopoulos

Let $(M^n,g)$ be an n-dimensional complete Riemannian manifold. We consider gradient estimates and Liouville type theorems for positive solutions to the following nonlinear elliptic equation: $$\Delta u+au\log u=0,$$ where $a$ is a nonzero…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Guangyue Huang , Bingqing Ma

In this paper, we investigate positive solutions to a class of Laplace equations with a gradient term on a complete, connected, and noncompact Riemannian manifold \((M^n,g)\) with nonnegative Ricci curvature, namely \[-\Delta u =…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Jingbo Dou , Benfeng Shi , Tian Wu , Hua Zhu

Let $(N,g)$ be an $n$-dimensional complete Riemannian manifold with nonempty boundary $\pt N$. Assume that the Ricci curvature of $N$ has a negative lower bound $Ric\geq -(n-1)c^2$ for some $c>0$, and the mean curvature of the boundary $\pt…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-27 Haizhong Li , Yong Wei

We prove that the sharp Li-Yau equality holds for the conjugate heat kernel on shrinking Ricci solitons without any curvature or volume assumptions. This quantity yields several estimates which allows us to classify four dimensional,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Jason Ledwidge

We derive the complete and optimal Cheng--Yau gradient estimates and universal bounds for subcritical semilinear elliptic equations on Riemannian manifolds with (Bakry-\'{E}mery) Ricci curvature bounded below. This answers a fundamental…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Zhihao Lu

In this paper, we prove sharp gradient estimates for positive solutions to the weighted heat equation on smooth metric measure spaces with compact boundary. As an application, we prove Liouville theorems for ancient solutions satisfying the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-14 Ha Tuan Dung , Nguyen Thac Dung , Jia-Yong Wu

We consider on Riemannian manifolds the Leibenson equation $\partial _{t}u=\Delta _{p}u^{q}$ that is also known as a doubly nonlinear evolution equation. We prove sharp upper estimates of weak subsolutions to this equation on Riemannian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Alexander Grigor'yan , Jin Sun , Philipp Sürig

We prove a global Li-Yau inequality for a general Markov semigroup under a curvature-dimension condition. This inequality is stronger than all classical Li-Yau type inequalities known to us. On a Riemannian manifold, it is equivalent to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-22 Dominique Bakry , François Bolley , Ivan Gentil

The paper establishes a series of gradient estimates for positive solutions to the heat equation on a manifold $M$ evolving under the Ricci flow, coupled with the harmonic map flow between $M$ and a second manifold $N$. We prove Li-Yau type…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-10 Mihai Băileşteanu

In conformal geometry, the Compactness Conjecture asserts that the set of Yamabe metrics on a smooth, compact, aspherical Riemannian manifold (M,g) is compact. Established in the locally conformally flat case by Schoen [43,44] and for n\leq…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-31 Pierpaolo Esposito , Angela Pistoia , Jérôme Vétois

In this paper, we study the gradient estimates of Li-Yau-Hamilton type for positive solutions to both drifting heat equation and the simple nonlinear heat equation problem $$ u_t-\Delta u=au\log u, \ \ u>0 $$ on the compact Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Li Ma

Let $\Omega$ be an open set in a complete, smooth, non-compact, $m$-dimensional Riemannian manifold $M$ without boundary, where $M$ satisfies a two-sided Li-Yau gaussian heat kernel bound. It is shown that if $\Omega$ has infinite measure,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Michiel van den Berg

This paper is devoted to the study of a problem arising from a geometric context, namely the conformal deformation of a Riemannian metric to a scalar flat one having constant mean curvature on the boundary. By means of blow-up analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Veronica Felli , Mohameden Ould Ahmedou

In this paper we prove weak L^{1,p} (and thus C^{\alpha}) compactness for the class of uniformly mean-convex Riemannian n-manifolds with boundary satisfying bounds on curvature quantities, diameter, and (n-1)-volume of the boundary. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-28 Kenneth S. Knox

In this paper we extend a gradient estimate of R. Hamilton for positive solutions to the heat equation on closed manifolds to bounded positive solutions on complete, non-compact manifolds with $Rc \geq -Kg$. We accomplish this extension via…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Brett Kotschwar

We address some fundamental questions concerning geometric analysis on Riemannian manifolds. It has been asked whether the $L^p$-Calder\'{o}n-Zygmund inequalities extend to a reasonable class of non-compact Riemannian manifolds without the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Jun Cao , Li-Juan Cheng , Anton Thalmaier

We prove a scalar-mean rigidity theorem for compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary in dimension less than five by developing a dimension reduction argument for mean curvature, which extends Schoen-Yau's dimension reduction argument for…

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