An entropy formula for the heat equation on manifolds with time-dependent metric, application to ancient solutions

DOI10.1007/S11118-014-9442-5zbMATH Open1309.53051arXiv1305.0463OpenAlexW2105315303WikidataQ125575791 ScholiaQ125575791MaRDI QIDQ2256554FDOQ2256554

Anton Thalmaier, Hongxin Guo, Robert Philipowski

Publication date: 19 February 2015

Published in: Potential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a new entropy functional for nonnegative solutions of the heat equation on a manifold with time-dependent Riemannian metric. Under certain integral assumptions, we show that this entropy is non-decreasing, and moreover convex if the metric evolves under super Ricci flow (which includes Ricci flow and fixed metrics with nonnegative Ricci curvature). As applications, we classify nonnegative ancient solutions to the heat equation according to their entropies. In particular, we show that a nonnegative ancient solution whose entropy grows sublinearly on a manifold evolving under super Ricci flow must be constant. The assumption is sharp in the sense that there do exist nonconstant positive eternal solutions whose entropies grow exactly linearly in time. Some other results are also obtained.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0463

zbMATH Keywords

Brownian motionentropy functionalsuper Ricci flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffusion processes and stochastic analysis on manifolds (58J65)

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