A geometric interpretation of Hamilton's Harnack inequality for the Ricci flow

2002/11/22 by Bennett Chow, Sun-Chin Chu
Mathematics · #math.DG #msc:58G11 #msc:53C21 #msc:35K55

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published as Mathematical Research Letters, vol. 2 (1995) 701-718 · 15 pages, no figures

arxiv created 2002/11/22 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We give a geometric interpretation of Hamilton's matrix Harnack inequality for the Ricci flow as the curvature of a connection on space-time.

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