Li-Yau gradient estimates for curvature flows in positively curved manifolds

DOI10.4310/MAA.2020.V27.N4.A2MaRDI QIDQ820861zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Paul Bryan, Heiko Kröner, Julian Scheuer

Publication date 28 September 2021

Published in Methods and Applications of Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09763

zbMATH Keywords

curvature flowHarnack inequalitylocally symmetric spacesmonotonicity estimatepinching

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10)

Abstract: We prove differential Harnack inequalities for flows of strictly convex hypersurfaces by powers $p$, $0<p<1$, of the mean curvature in Einstein manifolds with a positive lower bound on the sectional curvature. We assume that this lower bound is sufficiently large compared to the derivatives of the curvature tensor of the ambient space and that the mean curvature of the initial hypersurface is sufficiently large compared to the ambient geometry. We also obtain some new Harnack inequalities for more general curvature flows in the sphere, as well as a monotonicity estimate for the mean curvature flow in non-negatively curved, locally symmetric spaces.

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