Differential Harnack inequalities for the backward heat equation with potential under the harmonic-Ricci flow (Q2257533)

The author studies Harnack inequalities for the positive solution of the backward heat equation with potential under a new harmonic-Ricci flow of type \[ \begin{cases} \frac{\partial}{\partial t}\text{g} = -2\mathrm{Ric}+2\alpha\nabla \phi \otimes \nabla \phi, t\in [0,T); \\ \frac{\partial}{\partial t}\phi = \tau_{\text{g}}\phi t\in [0,T), \end{cases} \] where \(\phi(\cdot,t):(M,\text{g}(t))\longrightarrow (N,h)\) is a map between two Riemannian manifolds and \(\alpha\) is a positive constant. In the above formula, \(\tau_{\text{g}}\phi=(\nabla_{e_i}d\phi)(e_i)\), where \(\{e_i\}^n_{i=1}\) is an orthonormal frame on \((M,\text{g}(t))\). This flow was introduced in [\textit{R. Müller}, Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 45, No. 1, 101--142 (2012; Zbl 1247.53082)]. The main results in this paper are as follow. \noindent The first one concerns the differential Harnack inequality for the fundamental solution of the conjugate heat equation under the harmonic-Ricci flow. Under some assumptions on the curvature, the author gets a second result; it concerns the Harnack inequality for the positive solution of the conjugate heat equation under the harmonic-Ricci flow. The third theorem concerns the Harnack inequality for the positive solution of the backward heat equation with potential under the harmonic-Ricci flow. Recently [\textit{S. Fang}, Adv. Geom. 13, No. 4, 741--755 (2013; Zbl 1286.53073)] obtained some theorems similar to the second and third above, under the extended Ricci flow (which is a special case of the harmonic-Ricci flow).