Parabolic Regularity and Dirichlet boundary value problems

Martin Dindos, Luke Dyer

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Abstract

We study the relationship between the Regularity and Dirichlet boundary value problems for parabolic equations of the form Lu = div (A∇u) - ut in Lip(1, 1/2) time-varying cylinders, where the coefficient matrix A = [aij(X, t)] is uniformly elliptic and bounded.
We show that if the Regularity problem (R)p for the equation Lu = 0 is solvable for some 1 < p < ∞ then the Dirichlet problem (D*)p' for the adjoint equation L∗v = 0 is also solvable, where
p′  = p/(p − 1). This result is an analogue of the result established in the elliptic case by Kenig and Pipher [KP93].
In the parabolic settings in the special case of the heat equation in slightly smoother domains this has been established by Hofmann and Lewis [HL96] and Nyström [Nys06] for scalar parabolic systems. In comparison, our result is abstract with no assumption on the coefficients beyond the ellipticity condition and is valid in more general class of domains.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)247-263
Number of pages17
JournalNonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications
Volume185
Early online date28 Mar 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Aug 2019

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