Existence and Partial Regularity Results for the Heat Flow for Harmonic Maps.
I present an alternative way of computing the index of a Dirac operator on a manifold with boundary and a special family of pseudodifferential boundary conditions. The local version of this index theorem contains a number of divergence terms in the interior, which are higher order heat kernel invariants. I will present a way of associating boundary terms to those divergence terms, which are rather local of nature.
In this paper, we consider gradient estimates on complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds for the following general heat equation where is a constant and is a differentiable function defined on . We suppose that the Bakry-Émery curvature and the -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.
Several new Harnack estimates for positive solutions of the heat equation on a complete Riemannian manifold with Ricci curvature bounded below by a positive (or a negative) constant are established. These estimates are sharp both for small time, for large time and for large distance, and lead to new estimates for the heat kernel of a manifold with Ricci curvature bounded below.
Medolla e Setti [6] studiano l'andamento della diffusione del calore generata dal Laplaciano discreto su un albero omogeneo e dimostrano che il calore è asintoticamente concentrato in «anelli» che viaggiano verso l'infinito a velocità lineare e la cui larghezza divisa per tende all'infinito, dove è il tempo. Qui si spiega come un risultato più preciso si ottiene come corollario della legge dei grandi numeri e del teorema del limite centrale per la passeggiata aleatoria sull'albero. Inoltre,...
Let be a closed polarized complex manifold of Kähler type. Let be the maximal compact subgroup of the automorphism group of . On the space of Kähler metrics that are invariant under and represent the cohomology class , we define a flow equation whose critical points are the extremal metrics,i.e.those that minimize the square of the -norm of the scalar curvature. We prove that the dynamical system in this space of metrics defined by the said flow does not have periodic orbits, and that its...