Gradient Estimate and Harnack Inequality

Location: 

Astro-Math Bldg. 430

Day and Time: 

2016-10-06 (Thursday) 12:30 - 14:20

Abstract: 

We will go through chapter 6 of Peter Li's GA book. We will present a proof for the sharp gradient estimate for positive eigenfunctions. As an application, we also prove a sharp upper estimate of $L^2$-spectrum of the Laplacian and a Liouville Theorem for harmonic functions on a complete manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature.