HARNACK INEQUALITY FOR A NONLINEAR PARABOLIC EQUATION UNDER GEOMETRIC FLOW

Title & Authors
HARNACK INEQUALITY FOR A NONLINEAR PARABOLIC EQUATION UNDER GEOMETRIC FLOW
Zhao, Liang;

Abstract
In this paper, we obtain some gradient estimates for positive solutions to the following nonlinear parabolic equation \frac{{\partial}u}{{\partial}t}
Keywords
parabolic equation;positive solutions;geometric flow;Harnack inequality;
Language
English
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