Hamilton's Harnack inequality and the $W$-entropy formula on complete Riemannian manifolds

Abstract

In this paper, we prove Hamilton's Harnack inequality and the gradient estimates of the logarithmic heat kernel for the Witten Laplacian on complete Riemainnian manifolds. As applications, we prove the $W$-entropy formula for the Witten Laplacian on complete Riemannian manifolds, and prove a family of logarithmic Sobolev inequalities on complete Riemannian manifolds with natural geometric condition.

An improved version of Hamilton's Harnack inequality is given. The Introduction part and Section 2 have been revised. Section 8 is removed

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