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In this note, we prove some new entropy formula for linear heat equation on static Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature. The results are analogies of Cao and Hamilton's entropies for Ricci flow coupled with heat-type…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Yucheng Ji

In this paper, we extend the Hamilton's gradient estimates \cite{har93} and a monotonicity formula of entropy \cite{ni04} for heat flows from smooth Riemannian manifolds to (non-smooth) metric measure spaces with appropriate Riemannian…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Renjin Jiang , Huichun Zhang

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

In this paper, we obtain Li-Yau type gradient estimates with time dependent parameter for positive solutions of the heat equation that are different with the estimates by Li-Xu \cite{LX} and Qian \cite{Qi}. As an application of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-30 Chengjie Yu , Feifei Zhao

In this paper we prove matrix Li-Yau-Hamilton estimates for positive solutions to the heat equation and the backward conjugate heat equation, both coupled with the Ricci flow. We then apply such estimates to establish the monotonicity of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Xiaolong Li , Qi S. Zhang

The main goal of this paper is to generalize some Li-Yau type gradient estimates to Finsler geometry in order to derive Harnack type inequalities. Moreover, we obtain, under some curvature assumption, a general gradient estimate for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-07 Cyrille Combete , Serge Degla , Leonard Todjihounde

In this paper, we establish Li-Yau-type and Hamilton-type estimates for positive solutions to the heat equation associated with the generalized Ricci flow, under a less stringent curvature condition. Compared with [25] and [35], these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Juanling Lu , Yu Zheng

In this paper we are concerned with the matrix Li-Yau-Hamilton estimates for nonlinear heat equations. Firstly, we derive such estimate on a K\"{a}hler manifold with a fixed K\"{a}hler metric. Then we consider the estimate on K\"{a}hler…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Xin-An Ren

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…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-27 Jiewon Park

We proved a matrix Li-Yau-Hamilton type gradient estimates for the positive solutin of the heat equation on complete Kaehler manifolds with nonnegative bisectional curvature. As a consequence we obtain a comparison theorem for the distance…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Huai-dong Cao , Lei Ni

In this paper, we derive local and global Li-Yau type gradient estimates for the positive solutions of the CR heat equation on complete noncompact pseudo-Hermitian manifolds. As applications of the gradient estimates, we give a Harnack…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Yuxin Dong , Yibin Ren , Biqiang Zhao

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…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-06-21 Li-Juan Cheng

In the first part of this paper, we get new Li-Yau type gradient estimates for positive solutions of heat equation on Riemmannian manifolds with $Ricci(M)\ge -k$, $k\in \mathbb R$. As applications, several parabolic Harnack inequalities are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-01-27 Junfang Li , Xiangjin Xu

We prove Li-Yau type gradient bounds for the heat equation either on manifolds with fixed metric or under the Ricci flow. In the former case the curvature condition is $|Ric^-| \in L^p$ for some $p>n/2$, or $\sup_\M \int_\M…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-30 Qi S Zhang , Meng Zhu

In this note we obtain local derivative estimates of Shi-type for the heat equation coupled to the Ricci flow. As applications, in part combining with Kuang's work, we extend some results of Zhang and Bamler-Zhang including distance…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Hong Huang

We study positive solutions to the heat equation on graphs. We prove variants of the Li-Yau gradient estimate and the differential Harnack inequality. For some graphs, we can show the estimates to be sharp. We establish new computation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Dominik Dier , Moritz Kassmann , Rico Zacher

In this paper, we obtain a Li-Yau type gradient estimate with time dependent parameter for positive solutions of the heat equation, so that the Li-Yau type gradient estimate of Li-Xu are special cases of the estimate. We also obtain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Zhigang Chen , Chengjie Yu , Feifei Zhao

We study the Ricci-Bourguignon flow on warped product manifolds with noncompact base. This setting leads naturally to a parabolic partial differential equation on the space of smooth warping functions, arising from the necessary and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-17 José N. V. Gomes , Willian I. Tokura , Hikaru Yamamoto

In this note, we obtain the rigidity of the sharp Cheng-Yau gradient estimate for positive harmonic functions on surfaces with nonegative Gaussian curvature, the rigidity of the sharp Li-Yau gradient estimate for positive solutions to heat…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Qixuan Hu , Guoyi Xu , Chengjie Yu

We derive a gradient estimate for positive functions, in particular for positive solutions to the heat equation, on finite or locally finite graphs. Unlike the well known Li-Yau estimate, which is based on the maximum principle, our…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Yong Lin , Shuang Liu , Yunyan Yang