Remarks on differential Harnack inequalities

In this paper, we give a generalization of (global and local) differential Harnack inequalities for heat equations obtained by Li and Xu [J.F. Li, X.J. Xu, Differential Harnack inequalities on Riemannian manifolds I: linear heat equation, Adv. Math. 226 (5) (2011) 4456–4491] and Baudoin and Garofalo [F. Baudoin, N. Garofalo, Perelman’s entropy and doubling property on Riemannian manifolds, J. Geom. Anal. 21 (2011) 1119–1131]. From this we can derive new Harnack inequalities and new lower bounds for the associated heat kernel. Also we provide some new entropy formulas with monotonicity.