The heat equation, while well understood in R^n , presents many novel difficulties in curved spaces. Among the techniques developed to deal with these new intricacies are differential Harnack inequalities. Beginning with the work of Li and Yau in [9] this paper will discuss the motivations and methods leading up to differential Harnack estimates culminating in Hamilton's full matrix Harnack inequality [7]. A new tool called the constant rank theorem will thereupon be developed and deployed to reprove Hamilton's result by a different route. This new proof deviates from the original substantially, but achieves the same result under the same assumptions without recourse to Hamilton's matrix maximum principle. The possible implications of this new proof are discussed in closing. / L'équation de la chaleur, bien comprise dans les espaces plats, présete un certain degré de difficulté sur les variétés Riemannienne. Parmi les outils importants pour comprendre ses solutions, on trouve l'inégalité matricielle d'Hamilton [7]. Ensuite, nous présenterons un nouvel outil qui est le théorèm de rang invariable et nous l'utiliserons afin de créer une nouvelle prueve de l'inégalité matricielle d'Hamilton. Cette nouvelle prueve nous fournie le meme hypotèses mais sans avoir recours au principe du maximum pour les systèmes d'équations d'Hamilton [6]. Finalement, nous discuterons les implications potentielles de cette nouvelle technique de preuve.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.66799 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Getgood, Thomas |
| Contributors | Pengfei Guan (Internal/Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | French |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Mathematics and Statistics) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | Electronically-submitted theses. |
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