Differential Harnack Estimates for heat Equation under Finsler-Ricci Flow

Abstract

In this paper we prove first order differential Harnack estimates for positive solutions of the heat equation (in the sense of distributions) under closed Finsler-Ricci flows. We assume mild non-linearities (in terms of the Chern connection, $\mathbf{S}-$curvature and Hessian) and suitable Ricci curvature bounds throughout the flow. One of the key tools we use is the Bochner identity for Finsler structures proved by Ohta and Sturm.