Gradient Estimates for a Nonlinear Diffusion Equation on Complete Manifolds

Abstract

Let (M,g) be a complete non-compact Riemannian manifold with the m- dimensional Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature bounded below by a non-positive constant. In this paper, we give a localized Hamilton-type gradient estimate for the positive smooth bounded solutions to the following nonlinear diffusion equation u_t=Δu-∇φ·∇u-au\log u-bu, where φ is a C^2 function, and a ≠ 0 and b are two real constants. This work generalizes the results of Souplet and Zhang (Bull. London Math. Soc., 38 (2006), pp. 1045-1053) and Wu (Preprint, 2008).