Gradient estimate for a nonlinear heat equation on Riemannian manifolds (Q2809219)

This paper deals with the following nonlinear heat equation: NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \frac{\partial u}{\partial t} = \Delta u + a u \ln u \tag{1}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE on the complete Riemannian manifold \((M^n, g)\). Here, \(\Delta\) denotes the Laplace-Bertrami operator of \(g\) and \(a\) is a real constant.NEWLINENEWLINEThe crucial point here is to derive a local Hamilton type gradient estimate for (1). These estimates allow the author to obtain a Liouville type theorem.