The Canonical Expanding Soliton and Harnack inequalities for Ricci flow

2009/11/26 by Cabezas-Rivas, Esther, Topping, Peter M.
#53C44 #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0911.5036

Abstract

We introduce the notion of Canonical Expanding Ricci Soliton, and use it to derive new Harnack inequalities for Ricci flow. This viewpoint also gives geometric insight into the existing Harnack inequalities of Hamilton and Brendle.

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