Gradient estimates for the porous medium equations on Riemannian manifolds (Q375723)

In this paper, the authors prove gradient estimates for the positive solutions of the porous medium equation \[ u_t = \Delta (u^m) \] with \(m>1\). Local gradient estimates of the Li-Yau type for positive solutions of porous medium equations on Riemannian manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded from below are proved. As applications, several parabolic Harnack inequalities are obtained. In particular, these estimates improve the ones obtained by \textit{P. Lu} et al. [J. Math. Pures Appl. (9) 91, No. 1, 1--19 (2009; Zbl 1156.58015)] recover the ones due to \textit{E. B. Davies} [Heat kernels and spectral theory. Cambridge etc.: Cambridge University Press (1989; Zbl 0699.35006); \textit{R. S. Hamilton}, Commun. Anal. Geom. 1, No. 1, 113--126 (1993; Zbl 0799.53048); \textit{J. Li} and \textit{X. Xu}, Adv. Math. 226, No. 5, 4456--4491 (2011; Zbl 1226.58009)]. These results can be extended to complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds.