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We establish a short-time existence theory for complete Ricci flows under scaling-invariant curvature bounds, starting from rotationally symmetric metrics on $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ that are noncollapsed at infinity, without assuming bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Ming Hsiao

We prove an invariant Harnack's inequality for operators in non-divergence form structured on Heisenberg vector fields when the coefficient matrix is uniformly positive definite, continuous, and symplectic. The method consists in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-01 Farhan Abedin , Cristian E. Gutiérrez , Giulio Tralli

We confirm a conjecture of Hamilton: On compact manifolds the normalized Ricci flow evolves metrics with positive curvature operators to limit metrics with constant curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Christoph Boehm , Burkhard Wilking

In this paper, we construct a set of new functionals of Ricci curvature on any Kaehler manifolds which are invariant under holomorphic transfermations in Kaehler Einstein manifolds and essentially decreasing under the Kaehler Ricci flow.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xiuxiong Chen , Gang Tian

In this paper, we prove the Hamilton differential Harnack inequality for positive solutions to the heat equation of the Witten Laplacian on complete Riemannian manifolds with the $CD(-K, m)$-condition, where $m\in [n, \infty)$ and $K\geq 0$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Songzi Li , Xiang-Dong Li

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Daniele Castorina , Giovanni Catino , Carlo Mantegazza

Optimal transport plays a major role in the study of manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below. Some results in this setting have been extended to super Ricci flows, revealing a unified approach to analysis on Ricci nonnegative manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Marco Flaim , Erik Hupp

We contribute to an original problem studied by Hamilton and others, in order to understand the behaviour of maximal solutions of the Ricci flow both in compact and non-compact complete orientable Riemannian manifolds of finite volume. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Stefano Nardulli , Francesco G. Russo

We study $n$-dimensional Ricci flows with non-negative Ricci curvature where the curvature is pointwise controlled by the scalar curvature and bounded by $C/t$, starting at metric cones which are Reifenberg outside the tip. We show that any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Alix Deruelle , Felix Schulze , Miles Simon

Following work of Ecker, we consider a weighted Gibbons-Hawking-York functional on a Riemannian manifold-with-boundary. We compute its variational properties and its time derivative under Perelman's modified Ricci flow. The answer has a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-28 John Lott

Recently, Qi S.Zhang [26] has derived a sharp Li-Yau estimate for positive solutions of the heat equation on closed Riemannian manifolds with the Ricci curvature bounded below by a negative constant. The proof is based on an integral…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Xingyu Song , Ling Wu , Meng Zhu

We show that the analog of Hamilton's Ricci flow in the combinatorial setting produces solutions which converge exponentially fast to Thurston's circle packing on surfaces. As a consequence, a new proof of Thurston's existence of circle…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bennett Chow , Feng Luo

In this paper, we consider the parabolic frequency for positive solutions of two nonlinear parabolic equations under the Ricci flow on closed manifolds. We obtain the monotonicity of parabolic frequency for the solution of two nonlinear…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Chuanhuan Li , Yi Li , Kairui Xu , Jichun Zhu

We present a new curvature condition which is preserved by the Ricci flow in higher dimensions. For initial metrics satisfying this condition, we establish a higher dimensional version of Hamilton's neck-like curvature pinching estimate.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-15 S. Brendle

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 present a simple connection between differential Harnack inequalities for hypersurface flows and natural concavity properties of their time-of-arrival functions. We prove these concavity properties directly for a large class of flows by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-01 Theodora Bourni , Mat Langford

We give a geometric interpretation of the linear trace Harnack inequality for the Ricci flow.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bennett Chow , Sun-Chin Chu

In this article, we introduce a new methodology to prove global parabolic Harnack inequalities on Riemannian manifolds. We focus on presenting a new proof of the global pointwise Harnack inequality satisfied by positive solutions of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Ben Andrews , Daniel Hauer , Jessica Slegers

We prove matrix Li-Yau-Hamilton estimates for positive solutions to the heat equation and the backward conjugate heat equation, both coupled with the K\"ahler-Ricci flow. As an application, we obtain a monotonicity formula.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Xiaolong Li , Hao-Yue Liu , Xin-An Ren

We provide a proof that nonholonomically constrained Ricci flows of (pseudo) Riemannian metrics positively result into nonsymmetric metrics (as explicit examples, we consider flows of some physically valuable exact solutions in general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-18 Sergiu I. Vacaru