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In this paper, we establish a new global Hessian matrix estimate for heat-type equations on Riemannian manifolds using a Bismut-type Hessian formula. Our results feature fully explicit coefficients as well as delay / growth rate functions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Li-Juan Cheng , Rui-Yu Yang

For the Neumann heat flow on nonconvex Riemannian domains $D\subset M$, we provide sharp gradient estimates and transport estimates with a novel $\sqrt t$-dependence, for instance, $$\text{Lip}( P^D_tf)\le e^{2S \,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Karl-Theodor Sturm

We introduce a new method for computing the heat invariants of a 2-dimensional Riemannian manifold based on a result by S.Agmon and Y.Kannai. Two explicit expressions for the heat invariants are presented. The first one depends on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Iosif Polterovich

We generalize Hamilton's matrix Li-Yau-type Harnack estimate for the Ricci flow by considering the space of all LYH (Li-Yau-Hamilton) quadratics that arise as curvature tensors of space-time connections satisfying the Ricci flow with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bennett Chow , Dan Knopf

We obtain sharp estimates for heat kernels and Green's functions on complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds with Euclidean volume growth and nonnegative Ricci curvature. We will then apply these estimates to obtain sharp Moser-Trudinger…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Luigi Fontana , Carlo Morpurgo , Liuyu Qin

Let $(\M^n, g)$ be a $n$ dimensional, complete ( compact or noncompact) Riemannian manifold whose Ricci curvature is bounded from below by a constant $-K \le 0$. Let $u$ be a positive solution of the heat equation on $\M^n \times (0,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Qi S. Zhang

We study pointwise and $L^p$ gradient estimates of the heat kernel, on manifolds that may have some amount of negative Ricci curvature, provided it is not too negative (in an integral sense) at infinity. We also prove uniform boundedness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Baptiste Devyver

In general, gradient estimates are very important and necessary for deriving convergence results in different geometric flows, and most of them are obtained by analytic methods. In this paper, we will apply a stochastic approach to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Xin Chen , Li-Juan Cheng , Jing Mao

In this paper, the author has considered the hyperbolic Kahler-Ricci flow introduced by Kong and Liu [11], that is, the hyperbolic version of the famous Kahler-Ricci flow. The author has explained the derivation of the equation and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-31 Xu Chao

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Juanling Lu , Yuting Wu , Qi S. Zhang

We first prove stochastic representation formulae for space-time harmonic mappings defined on manifolds with evolving Riemannian metric. We then apply these formulae to derive Liouville type theorems under appropriate curvature conditions.…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-03-27 Hongxin Guo , Robert Philipowski , Anton Thalmaier

The aim of this article is to provide a Liouville theorem for heat equation along ancient super Ricci flow. We formulate such a Liouville theorem under a growth condition concerning Perelman's reduced distance.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Keita Kunikawa , Yohei Sakurai

In this paper, we generalize the Cao-Yau's gradient estimate for the sum of squares of vector fields up to higher step under assumption of the generalized curvature-dimension inequality. With its applications, by deriving a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-05 Der-Chen Chang , Shu-Cheng Chang , Chien Lin

In this paper, we will study the (linear) geometric analysis on metric measure spaces. We will establish a local Li-Yau's estimate for weak solutions of the heat equation and prove a sharp Yau's gradient gradient for harmonic functions on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-21 Hui-Chun Zhang , Xi-Ping Zhu

We give an alternative look at the log-Sobolev inequality (LSI in short) for log-concave measures by semigroup tools. The similar idea yields a heat flow proof of LSI under some quadratic Lyapunov condition for symmetric diffusions on…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-29 Yuan Liu

A new type of gradient estimate is established for diffusion semigroups on non-compact complete Riemannian manifolds. As applications, a global Harnack inequality with power and a heat kernel estimate are derived for diffusion semigroups on…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-01-31 Marc Arnaudon , Anton Thalmaier , Feng-Yu Wang

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…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-27 Guangyue Huang , Haizhong Li

We prove an $L^2$ estimate for the drift heat equation on a complete gradient shrinking Ricci soliton. This estimate has a time-dependent weight which is Gaussian in its spatial asymptotics. When transferred and scaled to an estimate for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Heather Macbeth

We consider on Riemannian manifolds solutions of the Leibenson equation \begin{equation*} \partial _{t}u=\Delta _{p}u^{q}. \end{equation*} This equation is also known as doubly nonlinear evolution equation. We prove gradient estimates for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Philipp Sürig