Perelman's entropy and heat kernel bounds on RCD spaces

Abstract

We study Perelman's W-entropy functional on finite-dimensional RCD spaces, a synthetic generalization of spaces with Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature bounded from below. We rigorously justify the formula for the time derivative of the W-entropy and derive its monotonicity and rigidity properties. Additionally, we establish bounds for solutions of the heat equation, which are of independent interest.