arXiv research

We prove several differential Harnack inequalities for positive solutions to nonlinear backward heat equations with different potentials coupled with the Ricci flow. We also derive an interpolated Harnack inequality for the nonlinear heat equation under the $\varepsilon$-Ricci flow on a closed surface. These new Harnac…

The paper establishes new inequalities for Finsler measure spaces.

The paper proves a Harnack inequality for heat equations on Finsler metric measure manifolds.

Derives matrix Harnack inequalities for semilinear heat equations on manifolds.

In this paper, we prove the equivalent of ultracontractive bound of heat semigroup or the uniform upper bound of the heat kernel with the Nash inequality, Log-Sobolev inequalities on graphs. We also show that under the assumption of volume growth and nonnegative curvature $CDE'(n,0)$ the Sobolev inequality, Nash inequa…

The paper studies heat kernel asymptotics and proves Morse inequalities.

New Harnack inequality for heat equation on compact manifolds.

Extends gradient estimates for heat equation under Finsler geometric flows.

Let $(X,d,μ)$ be a $RCD^\ast(K, N)$ space with $K\in mathbb{R}$ and $N\in [1,\infty)$. Suppose that $(X,d)$ is connected, complete and separable, and $\supp μ=X$. We prove that the Li-Yau inequality for the heat flow holds true on $(X,d,μ)$ when $K\ge 0$. A Baudoin-Garofalo inequality and Harnack inequalities for the h…

We study inequalities related to the heat kernel for the hypoelliptic sublaplacian on an H-type Lie group. Specifically, we obtain precise pointwise upper and lower bounds on the heat kernel function itself. We then apply these bounds to derive an estimate on the gradient of solutions of the heat equation, which is kno…

We show that the logarithmic derivatives of the convolution heat kernels on a uni-modular Lie group are exponentially integrable. This result is then used to prove an "integrated" Harnack inequality for these heat kernels. It is shown that this integrated Harnack inequality is equivalent to a version of Wang's Harnack …

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 obtained and they lead to new estimates on heat kernels of manifolds with Ricci…

Derives Li & Yau estimates for heat equations on manifolds.

Derives gradient estimates for CR heat equation on pseudo-Hermitian manifolds.

The paper proves various inequalities on gradient shrinking Ricci solitons.

Study heat flow inequalities on 1-forms in RCD spaces.

Sharp heat kernel and Green's function estimates on Euclidean volume growth manifolds.

In this paper, we derive a general evolution formula for possible Harnack quantities. As a consequence, we prove several differential Harnack inequalities for positive solutions of backward heat-type equations with potentials (including the conjugate heat equation) under the Ricci flow. We shall also derive Perelman's …

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 inequality that is conserved along Ricci ow. We will use a horizontal coupling of curve […

The study characterizes heat flow and concentration on directed graphs with a lower Ricci curvature bound.

Study on infinite-dimensional Heisenberg groups using hypoelliptic heat kernels.

The paper studies heat kernel asymptotics for Kohn Laplacians on CR manifolds.

We obtain upper bounds on the heat content and on the torsional rigidity of a complete Riemannian manifold M, assuming a generalized Hardy inequality for the Dirichlet Laplacian on M.

New Hessian estimates for heat equations on manifolds.

By studying the heat semigroup, we prove Li-Yau type estimates for bounded and positive solutions of the heat equation on graphs, under the assumption of the curvature-dimension inequality $CDE'(n,0)$, which can be consider as a notion of curvature for graphs. Furthermore, we derive that if a graph has non-negative cur…

New gradient estimates for heat equation on Riemannian manifolds.

We prove a variant of the Davies-Gaffney-Grigor'yan Lemma for the continuous time heat kernel on graphs. We use it together with the Li-Yau inequality to obtain strong heat kernel estimates for graphs satisfying the exponential curvature dimension inequality.

Proves upper bounds for heat kernels evolving on manifolds.

Study generalizes Hermitian-Einstein equation for cyclic Higgs bundles, proving existence and inequality.

Study inequalities on hyperbolic spaces and Riemannian manifolds using symmetrization and heat semigroup.

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 with the time dependent horizontal Laplacian operators. We also get a time depend…

Modified Bakry-Émery criterion inequality for Tsallis entropy monotonicity.

Optimizes heat equation estimates on noncompact manifolds.

The paper extends inequalities to twisted differential forms on Kähler manifolds.

New method uses entropy dissipation to prove isoperimetric inequalities.

The paper improves heat equation estimates under weaker Ricci curvature conditions.

Let $(X,d,μ)$ be a $RCD^\ast(K, N)$ space with $K\in \mathbb{R}$ and $N\in [1,\infty]$. For $N\in [1,\infty)$, we derive the upper and lower bounds of the heat kernel on $(X,d,μ)$ by applying the parabolic Harnack inequality and the comparison principle, and then sharp bounds for its gradient, which are also sharp in t…

The paper proves heat kernel asymptotics for high power line bundles on complex manifolds.

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 consider both the case where $M$ is a complete manifold without boundary and the …

We prove constrained trace, matrix and constrained matrix Harnack inequalities for the nonlinear heat equation $ω_t=Δω+aω\ln ω$ on closed manifolds. We also derive a new interpolated Harnack inequality for the equation $ω_t=Δω-ω\lnω+\varepsilon Rω$ on closed surfaces under the $\varepsilon$-Ricci flow. Finally we prove…

In this paper, we prove a differential Harnack inequality for positive solutions of time-dependent heat equations with potentials. We also prove a gradient estimate for the positive solution of the time-dependent heat equation.

The paper estimates gradients on graphs under specific conditions and applies these estimates to heat equations.

In this paper, we first derive a Sobolev inequality along the harmonic-Ricci flow. We then prove a linear parabolic estimate based on the Sobolev inequality and Moser's iteration. As an application, we will obtain an upper bound estimate for the heat kernel under the flow.

Sharp fractional Sobolev inequalities on closed manifolds identified.

The paper connects eigenvalue problems for various operators and establishes inequalities and asymptotic formulas for heat traces.

We establish global existence of smooth solutions to heat flow for Yang-Mills-Higgs functional on Kahler fibrations. As an application, we give a new proof of the key inequality for Mundet's Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence theorem using the heat flow technique.

In this paper we study global Poincare inequalities on balls in a large class of sub-Riemannian manifolds satisfying the generalized curvature dimension inequality introduced by F.Baudoin and N.Garofalo. As a corollary, we prove the uniqueness of solutions for the subelliptic heat equation. Our results apply in particu…

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 positive solutions of the heat equation when the manifold evolving along the Finsler Ri…