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In this paper, we will study the Li-Yau inequalities for weak solutions of the heat equation on RCD∗(K,N) metric measure spaces.
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The author gratefully acknowledges support from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, grant number KLH1411048.
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Huang, JC. Li-Yau Inequality for Heat Equations on RCD∗(K,N) Metric Measure Spaces. Potential Anal 53, 315–328 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11118-019-09770-2
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