Local existence and uniqueness of weak solutions for nonlinear parabolic equations with superlinear growth and unbounded initial data (Q5954456)

The paper studies local existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to the Cauchy--Dirichlet problem for nonlinear parabolic equations \[ \begin{cases} u_t-\text{div }(a(x,t,\nabla u))=\rho(x,t)|u|^{p-1}u & \text{ in } \Omega\times(0,T),\\ u=0 & \text{ on } \partial\Omega\times(0,T),\\ u(x,0)=u_0(x) & \text{ in } \Omega\end{cases} \] with \(\Omega\subset {\mathbb R}^N,\) \(N>2,\) is a bounded subset, \(p>1,\) \(\rho(x,t)\) is a bounded function and \(a(x,t,\xi)\) is a Carathéodory function satisfying suitable growth conditions.