Paper · Aug 10, 2021

Hessian estimates for the conjugate heat equation coupled with the Ricci flow

Hong Huang

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In this short note we obtain some local and global upper bounds for the Hessian of a positive solution to the conjugate heat equation coupled with the Ricci flow.

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    Topics Heat kernel · Shared terms “conjugate heat”, “upper bound”

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