An upper bound of the heat kernel along the harmonic-Ricci flow
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title: An upper bound of the heat kernel along the harmonic-Ricci flow
zbMATH Open document ID: 1356.53066
author: Shouwen Fang
author: Tao Zheng
published in: Manuscripta Mathematica
publication date: 2016-08-25T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00639
review text: The authors consider a family of metrics \(g(\cdot,t)\) on a manifold \(M\) and a family of smooth maps \(\phi(\cdot, t): (M,g(\cdot,t))\to (N,h)\) into another Riemannian manifold, and a positive non-increasing function \(\alpha(t)\) that defines a solution \((g(x,t),\phi(x,t))\) of the coupled system harmonic-Ricci flow in \(M^n\times [0, T)\) with initial value \((g_0, \phi_0)\): \[ \partial_tg=-2\mathrm{Ric} +2\alpha(t)\nabla\phi\otimes\nabla\phi, \quad \quad \partial_t\phi =\tau_g\phi. \] This flow may provide the existence of harmonic maps when the target space is not necessarily of non-positive curvature. Additionally, the function \(S=R -\alpha(t)|\nabla\phi|^2\) is considered, where \(R\) scalar curvature of \((M,g)\). In Theorem 1.1, a Sobolev inequality is proved. If for some positive constants \(A_0, B_0\) the following Sobolev inequality holds for the initial value \((g_0,\phi_0)\) for any \(v\in W^{1,2}(M,g_0)\), \[ \left(\int_M v^{\frac{2n}{n-2}}d\mu(g_0)\right)^{\frac{n-2}{n}}\leq A_0\int_M\left(|\nabla v|^2+ \frac{1}{4}Sv^2\right)d\mu(g_0) + B_0\int_Mv^2d\mu(g_0) \] the same inequality holds for \(g(t)\), for any \(t\in [0,T]\), with \(A(t)=Ce^{8tB_0/nA_0}\), and \(B(t)=Ce^{8tB_0/nA_0}\), where \(C\) is a positive constant depending only on \(A_0\), \(B_0\), \(g_0\), \(\phi_0\) and \(n\), and depends only on \(n\) if \(S\geq 0\) at \(t=0\). The proof consists in showing first a log-Sobolev inequality by using the monotonicity of the \(\mathcal{W}\)-entropy. As a corollary, a uniform Sobolev inequality follows if the first eigenvalue \(\lambda_0\) of \(\mathcal{F}\) entropy w.r.t. \(g_0\) is positive. Applying a Moser's iteration to the Sobolev inequality, under the assumption \(S\geq 0\) at \(t=0\), for a nonnegative Lipschitz continuous function \(f(x,t)\) satisfying \(\partial_tf \leq \Delta f + af\) on \(M\times [0,T]\), where \(a\geq 0\), a parabolic estimate is obtained in Theorem 1.2 for any \(p>0\) as follows \[ \sup_{x\in M} |f(x,t)| \leq \l…
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C44
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C21
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35K08
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 46E35
zbMATH DE Number: 6619564
zbMATH Keywords: harmonic-Ricci flow
zbMATH Keywords: Sobolev inequality
zbMATH Keywords: estimations
zbMATH Keywords: heat kernel
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W2962903519
arXiv ID: 1501.00639
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Wikidata QID: Q125887294
DOI: 10.1007/S00229-016-0825-3
reviewed by: Isabel Salavessa
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6619564