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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

In a number of physically important cases, the nonholonomically (nonintegrable) constrained Ricci flows can be modelled by exact solutions of Einstein equations with nonhomogeneous (anisotropic) cosmological constants. We develop two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-02-17 Sergiu I. Vacaru

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…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-29 Huai-Dong Cao , Meng Zhu

We announce a new proof of the uniform estimate on the curvature of solutions to the Ricci flow on a compact K\"ahler manifold $M^n$ with positive bisectional curvature. In contrast to the recent work of X. Chen and G. Tian, our proof of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Huai-Dong Cao , Bing-Long Chen , Xi-Ping Zhu

In this article we derive Harnack estimates for conjugate heat kernel in an abstract geometric flow. Our calculation involves a correction term D. When D is nonnegative, we are able to obtain a Harnack inequality. Our abstract formulation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Xiaodong Cao , Hongxin Guo , Hung Tran

In this short note, we hope to give a rapid induction for non-experts into the world of Differential Harnack inequalities, which have been so influential in geometric analysis and probability theory over the past few decades. At the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-09 Sebastian Helmensdorfer , Peter Topping

Let $M$ be a closed Riemannian manifold with a family of Riemannian metrics $g_{ij}(t)$ evolving by a geometric flow $\partial_{t}g_{ij} = -2{S}_{ij}$, where $S_{ij}(t)$ is a family of smooth symmetric two-tensors. We derive several…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-19 Hongxin Guo , Masashi Ishida

In this paper, we consider the Laplacian G_2 flow on a closed seven-dimensional manifold M with a closed G_2-structure. We first obtain the gradient estimates of positive solutions of the heat equation under the Laplacian G_2 flow and then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Chuanhuan Li , Yi Li , Kairui Xu

In [ZY2], the second author proved Perelman's assertion, namely, for an ancient Ricci flow with bounded and nonnegative curvature operator, bounded entropy is equivalent to noncollapsing on all scales. In this paper, we continue this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Zilu Ma , Yongjia Zhang

In this work, we use the Ricci flow approach to study the gap phenomenon of Riemannian manifolds with non-negative curvature and sub-critical scaling invariant curvature decay. The first main result is a quantitative Ricci flow existence…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Pak-Yeung Chan , Man-Chun Lee

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

For an ancient Ricci flow asymptotic to a compact integrable shrinker, or a Ricci flow developing a finite-time singularity modelled on the shrinker, we establish the long-time existence of a harmonic map heat flow between the Ricci flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Kyeongsu Choi , Yi Lai

In this paper we construct a version of Ricci flow for noncommutative 2-tori, based on a spectral formulation in terms of the eigenvalues and eigenfunction of the Laplacian and recent results on the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for noncommutative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Tanvir Ahamed Bhuyain , Matilde Marcolli

We offer an algorithmic approach for determining Harnack quantities for the curve shortening flow and we show how, following this procedure, one can obtain Hamilton's Harnack inequality for this flow $\kappa_t + \frac{1}{2t}\kappa \geq…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-03 Mihai Băileşteanu

We consider a closed manifold M with a Riemannian metric g(t) evolving in direction -2S(t) where S(t) is a symmetric two-tensor on (M,g(t)). We prove that if S satisfies a certain tensor inequality, then one can construct a forwards and a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Reto Müller

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 short paper, we prove a Hitchin-Thorpe type inequality for closed 4-manifolds with non-positive Yamabe invariant, and admitting long time solutions of the normalized Ricci flow equation with bounded scalar curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-08 Yuguang Zhang , Zhenlei Zhang

We show that every complete non-compact three-manifold with non-negatively pinched Ricci curvature admits a complete Ricci flow solution for all positive time, with scale-invariant curvature decay and preservation of pinching. Combining…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Man-Chun Lee , Peter M. Topping

A result of R. Hamilton asserts that any convex hypersurface in an Euclidian space with pinched second fundamental form must be compact. Partly inspired by this result, twenty years ago, in \cite{Ancient}, Remark 3.1 on page 650, the author…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Lei Ni

We prove constrained trace, matrix and constrained matrix Harnack inequalities for the nonlinear heat equation $\omega_t=\Delta\omega+a\omega\ln \omega$ on closed manifolds. We also derive a new interpolated Harnack inequality for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Jia-Yong Wu