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We prove a Harnack inequality for positive solutions of a parabolic equation with slow anisotropic spatial diffusion. After identifying its natural scalings, we reduce the problem to a Fokker-Planck equation and construct a self-similar…
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…
We develop foundational theory for the Laplacian flow for closed G_2 structures which will be essential for future study. (1). We prove Shi-type derivative estimates for the Riemann curvature tensor Rm and torsion tensor T along the flow,…
We consider closed immersed surfaces in R^3 evolving by the geometric triharmonic heat flow. Using local energy estimates, we prove interior estimates and a positive absolute lower bound on the lifespan of solutions depending solely on the…
We study flows of $G_2$-structures guided by the principle of dimensional reduction: natural geometric flows in $G_2$-geometry reduce to natural flows in complex geometry. Our main examples are the $G_2$-Laplacian coflow, which lifts the…
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In this paper, we investigate $V$-harmonic heat flows from complete Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature to complete Riemannian manifolds with sectional curvature bounded above. We give a gradient estimate of…
We establish a correspondence between a parabolic complex Monge-Amp\`ere equation and the $G_2$-Laplacian flow for initial data produced from a K\"ahler metric on a complex $2$- or $3$-fold. By applying estimate for the complex…
We study the fast diffusion equation (FDE) with a linear forcing term under the Ricci flow on complete manifolds with bounded curvature and nonnegative curvature operator. We prove Aronson-B\'enilan and Li-Yau-Hamilton type differential…
In this paper, we study monotonicity of eigenvalues of Laplacian-type operator $-\Delta+cR$, where $c$ is a constant, along the Ricci-Bourguignon flow. For $c\neq0$, We derive monotonicity of the lowest eigenvalue of Laplacian-type operator…
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…
We consider a nonlinear constrained heat flow evolving on the manifold $\mathcal{M}=\{v\in L^{2}:\|v\|_{L^{2}}=1\}$ over bounded smooth domains. It is known that the solution corresponding to any nonnegative initial datum remains on…
We consider weak solutions to very singular parabolic equations involving a one-Laplace-type operator, which is singular and degenerate, and a $p$-Laplace-type operator with $\frac{2n}{n+2}<p<\infty$, where $n\ge 2$ denotes the space…
Since Li and Yau obtained the gradient estimate for the heat equation, related estimates have been extensively studied. With additional curvature assumptions, matrix estimates that generalize such estimates have been discovered for various…
We consider gradient estimates to positive solutions of porous medium equations and fast diffusion equations: $$u_t=\Delta_\phi(u^p)$$ associated with the Witten Laplacian on Riemannian manifolds. Under the assumption that the…
We derive an adaptation of Li & Yau estimates for positive solutions of semilinear heat equations on Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci tensor. We then apply these estimates to obtain a Harnack inequality and to discuss…
This is a revised version of our short note [arxiv.math.DG/0403065] where we discuss the monotonicity of the eigen-values of the Laplacian operator to the Ricci-Hamilton flow on a compact or a complete non-compact Riemannian manifold. We…
We survey recent progress in the study of flows of isometric $G_2$-structures on 7-dimensional manifolds, that is, flows that preserve the metric, while modifying the $G_2$-structure. In particular, heat flows of isometric $G_2$-structures…
Using the maximal regularity theory for quasilinear parabolic systems, we prove two stability results of complex hyperbolic space under the curvature-normalized Ricci flow in complex dimensions two and higher. The first result is on a…