Differential Harnack inequalities for semilinear parabolic equations on Riemannian manifolds I: Bakry-\'{E}mery curvature bounded below

TL;DR

This paper introduces a unified method to derive differential Harnack inequalities for positive solutions of semilinear parabolic equations on Riemannian manifolds with Bakry-Émery curvature bounds, leading to new estimates and Liouville theorems.

Contribution

It develops a novel approach transforming Harnack inequality derivation into solving an ODE system, providing sharper estimates and extending results to Yamabe-type equations.

Findings

New differential Harnack inequalities derived

Sharp estimates for logarithmic and Yamabe-type equations obtained

Liouville-type theorems established under curvature conditions

Abstract

In this paper, we present a unified method for deriving differential Harnack inequalities for positive solutions of the semilinear parabolic equation \begin{equation*} \partial_t u=\Delta_V u+H(u) \end{equation*} on complete Riemannian manifolds with Bakry-\'Emery curvature bounded below. This method transforms the problem of deriving differential Harnack inequalities into solving a related ODE system. As an application of this method, we obtain new and improved estimates for logarithmic-type equations and Yamabe-type equations. Moreover, under the non-negative Bakry-\'Emery curvature condition, we obtain complete sharp estimates for these equations. As a natural consequence of these results, we also establish sharp Harnack inequalities and Liouville-type theorems for these equations.