Gradient Estimates for the doubly nonlinear diffusion equation on Complete Riemannian Manifolds

Abstract

We study the elliptic version of doubly nonlinear diffusion equations on a complete Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$. Through the combination of a special nonlinear transformation and the standard Nash-Moser iteration procedure, some Cheng-Yau type gradient estimates for positive solutions are derived. As by-products, we also obtain Liouville type results and Harnack's inequality. These results fill a gap in Yan and Wang (2018)\cite{YW}, due to the lack of one key inequality when $b={\hat{I}}^3-\frac{1}{p-1}>0$, and provide a partial answer to the question that whether gradient estimates for the doubly nonlinear diffusion equation can be extended to the case $b>0$ .