The study of Hamilton's Ricci flow has been dominated by the
maximum principle with an exception to Hamilton's entropy
estimate which holds for closed surfaces with positive
Gaussian curvature. Then it is very interesting to find
entropy formulae for integrals of local geometric
quantities. An exciting recent example is the Perelman's
entropy functional. Its monotonicity property of the entropy
functional together with Li-Yau-Perelman reduced distance
imply the no local collapsing theorem under the Ricci flow.
In this talk, we derive the CR analogue of Perelman's
Harnack estimate for the positive solution of the CR
conjugate heat equation under the CR curvature flows. As
consequences, we obtain monotonicity properties of CR
Perelman F-entropy and W-functional and provide a
classification of the CR solitons. At the end, we are able
to show the asymptotic convergence for the solution of CR
Yamabe flow in a closed spherical CR 3-manifold with
positive Tanaka-Webster curvature and vanishing torsion. |