摘要

We prove global and local upper bounds for the Hessian of log positive solutions of the heat equation on a Riemannian manifold. The metric is either fixed or evolved under the Ricci flow. These upper bounds seem to be the first general ones that match the well-known lower bounds which have been around for some time. As an application, we discover a local, time reversed Harnack type inequality for bounded positive solutions of the heat equation.