Local gradient estimates of $p$-harmonic functions, $1/H$-flow, and an entropy formula

Brett Kotschwar; Lei Ni

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Gradient estimates of Li Yau type for a general heat equation on Riemannian manifolds

Nguyen Ngoc Khanh (2016)

Archivum Mathematicum

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In this paper, we consider gradient estimates on complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds $(M, g)$ for the following general heat equation $u_{t} = Δ_{V} u + a u log u + b u$ where $a$ is a constant and $b$ is a differentiable function defined on $M \times [0, \infty)$ . We suppose that the Bakry-Émery curvature and the $N$ -dimensional Bakry-Émery curvature are bounded from below, respectively. Then we obtain the gradient estimate of Li-Yau type for the above general heat equation. Our results generalize the work of Huang-Ma ([4]) and Y. Li ([6]), recently. ...

Harmonie reflections

Lieven Vanhecke, Maria-Elena Vazquez-Abal (1988)

Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni

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We study local reflections $\phi_{\sigma}$ with respect to a curve $\sigma$ in a Riemannian manifold and prove that $\sigma$ is a geodesic if $\phi_{\sigma}$ is a harmonic map. Moreover, we prove that the Riemannian manifold has constant curvature if and only if $\phi_{\sigma}$ is harmonic for all geodesies $\sigma$ .

Harmonie reflections

Lieven Vanhecke, Maria-Elena Vazquez-Abal (1988)

Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Rendiconti

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The Geometry of Differential Harnack Estimates

Sebastian Helmensdorfer, Peter Topping (2011-2012)

Séminaire de théorie spectrale et géométrie

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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 coarsest level, these are often mysterious-looking inequalities that hold for ‘positive’ solutions of some parabolic PDE, and can be verified quickly by grinding out a computation and applying a maximum principle. In this note we emphasise the geometry behind...

Mean curvature properties for $p$ -Laplace phase transitions

Berardino Sciunzi, Enrico Valdinoci (2005)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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This paper deals with phase transitions corresponding to an energy which is the sum of a kinetic part of $p$ -Laplacian type and a double well potential $h_{0}$ with suitable growth conditions. We prove that level sets of solutions of $Δ_{p} u = h_{0}^{'} (u)$ possessing a certain decay property satisfy a mean curvature equation in a suitable weak viscosity sense. From this, we show that, if the above level sets approach uniformly a hypersurface, the latter has zero mean curvature.

Ricci flow coupled with harmonic map flow

Reto Müller (2012)

Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure

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We investigate a coupled system of the Ricci flow on a closed manifold $M$ with the harmonic map flow of a map $φ$ from $M$ to some closed target manifold $N$ , $\frac{\partial}{\partial t} g = - 2 Rc + 2 α \nabla φ \otimes \nabla φ, \frac{\partial}{\partial t} φ = τ_{g} φ,$ where $α$ is a (possibly time-dependent) positive coupling constant. Surprisingly, the coupled system may be less singular than the Ricci flow or the harmonic map flow alone. In particular, we can always rule out energy concentration of $φ$ a-priori by choosing $α$ large enough. Moreover, it suffices to bound the curvature...

Hypersurfaces with free boundary and large constant mean curvature: concentration along submanifolds

Mouhamed Moustapha Fall, Fethi Mahmoudi (2008)

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze

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Given a domain $Ω$ of $ℝ^{m + 1}$ and a $k$ -dimensional non-degenerate minimal submanifold $K$ of $\partial Ω$ with $1 \leq k \leq m - 1$ , we prove the existence of a family of embedded constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in $Ω$ which as their mean curvature tends to infinity concentrate along $K$ and intersecting $\partial Ω$ perpendicularly along their boundaries.

Two-dimensional curvature functionals with superquadratic growth

Ernst Kuwert, Tobias Lamm, Yuxiang Li (2015)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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For two-dimensional, immersed closed surfaces $f : Σ \to ℝ^{n}$ , we study the curvature functionals $ℰ^{p} (f)$ and $𝒲^{p} (f)$ with integrands ${(1 + | A |}^{2})^{p / 2}$ and ${(1 + | H |}^{2})^{p / 2}$ , respectively. Here $A$ is the second fundamental form, $H$ is the mean curvature and we assume $p > 2$ . Our main result asserts that $W^{2, p}$ critical points are smooth in both cases. We also prove a compactness theorem for $𝒲^{p}$ -bounded sequences. In the case of $ℰ^{p}$ this is just Langer’s theorem [16], while for $𝒲^{p}$ we have to impose a bound for the Willmore energy strictly below $8 π$ as an additional...

Regularity of stable solutions of $p$ -Laplace equations through geometric Sobolev type inequalities

Daniele Castorina, Manel Sanchón (2015)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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We prove a Sobolev and a Morrey type inequality involving the mean curvature and the tangential gradient with respect to the level sets of the function that appears in the inequalities. Then, as an application, we establish a priori estimates for semistable solutions of $- Δ_{p} u = g (u)$ in a smooth bounded domain $Ω \subset ℝ^{n}$ . In particular, we obtain new $L^{r}$ and $W^{1, r}$ bounds for the extremal solution $u^{☆}$ when the domain is strictly convex. More precisely, we prove that $u^{☆} \in L^{\infty} (Ω)$ if $n \leq p + 2$ and $u^{☆} \in L^{\frac{n p}{n - p - 2}} (Ω) \cap W_{0}^{1, p} (Ω)$ if $n > p + 2$ .

Structure of second-order symmetric Lorentzian manifolds

Oihane F. Blanco, Miguel Sánchez, José M. Senovilla (2013)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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$𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 - 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝐿𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑧𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠$ , that is to say, Lorentzian manifolds with vanishing second derivative $\nabla \nabla R \equiv 0$ of the curvature tensor $R$ , are characterized by several geometric properties, and explicitly presented. Locally, they are a product $M = M_{1} \times M_{2}$ where each factor is uniquely determined as follows: $M_{2}$ is a Riemannian symmetric space and $M_{1}$ is either a constant-curvature Lorentzian space or a definite type of plane wave generalizing the Cahen–Wallach family. In the proper case (i.e., $\nabla R \neq 0$ at some point), the curvature...

On Kakeya–Nikodym averages, $L^{p}$ -norms and lower bounds for nodal sets of eigenfunctions in higher dimensions

Matthew D. Blair, Christopher D. Sogge (2015)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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We extend a result of the second author [27, Theorem 1.1] to dimensions $d \geq 3$ which relates the size of $L^{p}$ -norms of eigenfunctions for $2 < p < 2 (d + 1) / d - 1$ to the amount of $L^{2}$ -mass in shrinking tubes about unit-length geodesics. The proof uses bilinear oscillatory integral estimates of Lee [22] and a variable coefficient variant of an " $ϵ$ removal lemma" of Tao and Vargas [35]. We also use Hörmander’s [20] $L^{2}$ oscillatory integral theorem and the Cartan–Hadamard theorem to show that, under the assumption of nonpositive...

Singer-Thorpe bases for special Einstein curvature tensors in dimension 4

Zdeněk Dušek (2015)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

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Let $(M, g)$ be a 4-dimensional Einstein Riemannian manifold. At each point $p$ of $M$ , the tangent space admits a so-called Singer-Thorpe basis (ST basis) with respect to the curvature tensor $R$ at $p$ . In this basis, up to standard symmetries and antisymmetries, just $5$ components of the curvature tensor $R$ are nonzero. For the space of constant curvature, the group $O (4)$ acts as a transformation group between ST bases at $T_{p} M$ and for the so-called 2-stein curvature tensors, the group $Sp (1) \subset SO (4)$ acts as a transformation...

On some properties of a Riemannian space $V_{4}$ with constant scalar curvature

W. Slósarska, Z. Żekanowski (1972)

Colloquium Mathematicae

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On $2p$ -dimensional Riemannian manifolds with positive scalar curvature

Domenico Perrone (1984)

Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Rendiconti

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In questo lavoro si danno alcuni risultati sugli spettri degli operatori di Laplace per varietà Riemanniane compatte con curvatura scalare positiva e di dimensione $2p$ . Ad essi si aggiunge una osservazione riguardante la congettura di Yamabe.

A geometric problem and the Hopf Lemma. I

Yan Yan Li, Louis Nirenberg (2006)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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A classical result of A. D. Alexandrov states that a connected compact smooth $n$ -dimensional manifold without boundary, embedded in $ℝ^{n + 1}$ , and such that its mean curvature is constant, is a sphere. Here we study the problem of symmetry of $M$ in a hyperplane $X_{n + 1} = const$ in case $M$ satisfies: for any two points $(X^{'}, X_{n + 1})$ , $(X^{'}, {\hat{X}}_{n + 1})$ on $M$ , with $X_{n + 1} > {\hat{X}}_{n + 1}$ , the mean curvature at the first is not greater than that at the second. Symmetry need not always hold, but in this paper, we establish it under some additional condition for $n = 1$ ....

A characterization of n-dimensional hypersurfaces in $R^{n + 1}$ with commuting curvature operators

Yulian T. Tsankov (2005)

Banach Center Publications

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Let Mⁿ be a hypersurface in $R^{n + 1}$ . We prove that two classical Jacobi curvature operators $J_{x}$ and $J_{y}$ commute on Mⁿ, n > 2, for all orthonormal pairs (x,y) and for all points p ∈ M if and only if Mⁿ is a space of constant sectional curvature. Also we consider all hypersurfaces with n ≥ 4 satisfying the commutation relation $(K_{x, y} \circ K_{z, u}) (u) = (K_{z, u} \circ K_{x, y}) (u)$ , where $K_{x, y} (u) = R (x, y, u)$ , for all orthonormal tangent vectors x,y,z,w and for all points p ∈ M.

Travelling graphs for the forced mean curvature motion in an arbitrary space dimension

Régis Monneau, Jean-Michel Roquejoffre, Violaine Roussier-Michon (2013)

Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure

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We construct travelling wave graphs of the form $z = - c t + φ (x)$ , $φ : x \in ℝ^{N - 1} \mapsto φ (x) \in ℝ$ , $N \geq 2$ , solutions to the $N$ -dimensional forced mean curvature motion $V_{n} = - c_{0} + κ$ ( $c \geq c_{0}$ ) with prescribed asymptotics. For any $1$ -homogeneous function $φ_{\infty}$ , viscosity solution to the eikonal equation $| D φ_{\infty} | = \sqrt{{(c / c_{0})}^{2} - 1}$ , we exhibit a smooth concave solution to the forced mean curvature motion whose asymptotics is driven by $φ_{\infty}$ . We also describe $φ_{\infty}$ in terms of a probability measure on $§^{N - 2}$ .

A strong maximum principle for the Paneitz operator and a non-local flow for the $Q$ -curvature

Matthew J. Gursky, Andrea Malchiodi (2015)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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In this paper we consider Riemannian manifolds $(M^{n}, g)$ of dimension $n \geq 5$ , with semi-positive $Q$ -curvature and non-negative scalar curvature. Under these assumptions we prove (i) the Paneitz operator satisfies a strong maximum principle; (ii) the Paneitz operator is a positive operator; and (iii) its Green’s function is strictly positive. We then introduce a non-local flow whose stationary points are metrics of constant positive $Q$ -curvature. Modifying the test function construction of Esposito-Robert,...

On Schrödinger maps from $T^{1}$ to $S^{2}$

Robert L. Jerrard, Didier Smets (2012)

Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure

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We prove an estimate for the difference of two solutions of the Schrödinger map equation for maps from $T^{1}$ to $S^{2} .$ This estimate yields some continuity properties of the flow map for the topology of $L^{2} (T^{1}, S^{2})$ , provided one takes its quotient by the continuous group action of $T^{1}$ given by translations. We also prove that without taking this quotient, for any $t > 0$ the flow map at time $t$ is discontinuous as a map from $𝒞^{\infty} (T^{1}, S^{2})$ , equipped with the weak topology of $H^{1 / 2},$ to the space of distributions ${(𝒞^{\infty} (T^{1}, ℝ^{3}))}^{*} .$ The argument relies...

Generalized gradient flow and singularities of the Riemannian distance function

Piermarco Cannarsa (2012-2013)

Séminaire Laurent Schwartz — EDP et applications

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Significant information about the topology of a bounded domain $Ω$ of a Riemannian manifold $M$ is encoded into the properties of the distance, $d_{\partial Ω}$ , from the boundary of $Ω$ . We discuss recent results showing the invariance of the singular set of the distance function with respect to the generalized gradient flow of $d_{\partial Ω}$ , as well as applications to homotopy equivalence.

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