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Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xiuxiong Chen

In the current paper,under the transverse Ricci flow on a totally geodesic Riemannian foliation, we prove two types of differential Harnack inequalities (Li-Yau gradient estimate) for the positive solutions of the heat equation associated…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Qi Feng

We prove the sharp Gaussian isoperimetric inequality for conjugate heat-kernel measures along a Ricci flow via a monotonicity formula. As consequences, we obtain the exact Gaussian enlargement theorem and a Gaussian-quantile two-set…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Robert Koirala

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

Assuming Perelman's estimates, we give a new proof of uniform $L^\infty$ estimate along normalized K\"ahler-Ricci flow on Fano manifolds with K\"ahler-Einstein metrics, using Chen-Cheng's auxiliary Monge-Amp\`ere equation and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Wangjian Jian , Yalong Shi

The paper considers a manifold $M$ evolving under the Ricci flow and establishes a series of gradient estimates for positive solutions of the heat equation on $M$. Among other results, we prove Li-Yau-type inequalities in this context. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-04 Mihai Bailesteanu , Xiaodong Cao , Artem Pulemotov

In this paper we give Hamilton's Laplacian estimates for the heat equation on complete noncompact manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. As an application, combining Li-Yau's lower and upper bounds of the heat kernel, we give an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-06 Jia-Yong Wu

We investigate Riemannian (non-Kahler) Ricci flow solutions that develop finite-time Type-I singularities and present evidence in favor of a conjecture that parabolic rescalings at the singularities converge to singularity models that are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-07 James Isenberg , Dan Knopf , Natasa Sesum

We formulate an extension of the Calabi conjecture to the setting of generalized K\"ahler geometry. We show a transgression formula for the Bismut Ricci curvature in this setting, which requires a new local Goto/Kodaira-Spencer deformation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Vestislav Apostolov , Xin Fu , Jeffrey Streets , Yury Ustinovskiy

In this paper, we prove the concavity of the Shannon entropy power for the heat equation associated with the Laplacian or the Witten Laplacian on complete Riemannian manifolds with suitable curvature-dimension condition and on compact super…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-03 S. Li , X. -D. Li

We investigate the Kahler-Ricci flow on holomorphic fiber spaces whose generic fiber is a Calabi-Yau manifold. We establish uniform metric convergence to a metric on the base, away from the singular fibers, and show that the rescaled…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-17 Valentino Tosatti , Ben Weinkove , Xiaokui Yang

In this paper we derive Cheng-Yau, Li-Yau, Hamilton estimates for Riemannian manifolds with Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature bounded from below, and also global and local upper bounds, in terms of Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature, for the Hessian of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-03 Yi Li

In this work, we study the H\"older regularity of the K\"ahler- Ricci flow on compact K\"ahler manifolds with semi-ample canonical line bundle. By adapting the method in the work of Hein-Tosatti on collapsing Calabi-Yau metrics, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Jianchun Chu , Man-Chun Lee

It is known that the Finsler heat flow is a nonlinear flow. This leads to the study of the linearized heat semigroup for the Finsler heat flow. In this paper, we first study its properties. By means of the linearized heat semigroup, we give…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Qiaoling Xia

We formulate a Calabi-Yau type conjecture in generalized K\"ahler geometry, focusing on the case of nondegenerate Poisson structure. After defining natural Hamiltonian deformation spaces for generalized K\"ahler structures generalizing the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-15 Vestislav Apostolov , Jeffrey Streets

We study harmonic map heat flow along ancient super Ricci flow, and derive several Liouville theorems with controlled growth from Perelman's reduced geometric viewpoint. For non-positively curved target spaces, our growth condition is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Keita Kunikawa , Yohei Sakurai

We define and study the harmonic heat flow for almost complex structures which are compatible with a Riemannian structure $(M, g)$. This is a tensor-valued version of harmonic map heat flow. We prove that if the initial almost complex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Weiyong He , Bo Li

In this paper we introduce a new logarithmic entropy functional for the linear heat equation on complete Riemannian manifolds and prove that it is monotone decreasing on complete Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. Our…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-08 Jia-Yong Wu

Yau's uniformization conjecture states: a complete noncompact K\"ahler manifold with positive holomorphic bisectional curvature is biholomorphic to $\ce^n$. The K\"ahler-Ricci flow has provided a powerful tool in understanding the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-08-22 Albert Chau , Luen-Fai Tam

In this paper, we remove the assumption on the gradient of the Ricci curvature in Hamilton's matrix Harnack estimate for the heat equation on all closed manifolds, answering a question which has been around since the 1990s. New ingredients…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Lang Qin , Qi S. Zhang