Some Gradient Estimates and Liouville Properties of the Fast Diffusion Equation on Riemannian Manifolds

Abstract

In the paper, the authors provide a new proof and derive some new elliptic type (Hamilton type) gradient estimates for fast diffusion equations on a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold with a fixed metric and along the Ricci flow by constructing a new auxiliary function. These results generalize earlier results in the literature. And some parabolic type Liouville theorems for ancient solutions are obtained.

Keywords

Gradient estimate / Fast diffusion equation / Ricci flow / Liouville theorem

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