The Cauchy problem for \(u_{t}=\Delta u+| \nabla u|^q\) (Q1407001)

The authors study the Cauchy problem for the generalized deterministic Kardar, Parisi and Zhang equation, called KPZ equation. Let \(S_T\) denote the strip \(S_T := \mathbb R^n \times (0, T]\), \(T>0\). They consider the following initial-value problem: \[ \begin{aligned} \frac{\partial u}{\partial t} &=\triangle_x u + \nabla u^q, (x, t)\in S_T \\ u(x, 0) &= u_0(x),\qquad x\in \mathbb R^n, \end{aligned}\tag{*} \] where \(q >0.\) In order to state the main existence result we shall define some functions used in the statements. Define \(\phi\, :[0, 1] \rightarrow [0, \pi^{-1/2} ]\) by \[ \int\limits_0^{\phi (s)} \ln (\pi^{1/2} \upsilon ) ^{-1/2}\,d \upsilon =s. \] Let \(m := \inf \{ u_0(x); x\in \mathbb R^n\},\) and \(M:=\sup \{u_0(x); x\in \mathbb R^n\}\), \[ \theta_1 (u; m, M) :=\begin{cases} (M- m)\;\phi\bigl (\!\frac{M -u}{M -m}\!\bigr ) & \text{ for } q >1\\ \frac{M -m}{2} \;\phi\Bigl( \frac{\scriptstyle 2 \min \{ M- u, u -m\}}{M -m}\Bigr ) &\text{ for } q =1\\ (M -m)\; \phi\bigl (\frac{u -m}{ M- m}\bigr ) & \text{ for } q < 1\end{cases} \] and \[ \theta_2 (u; m, M) :=\begin{cases} (q -1)^{-1/q} (M -u)^{1/q}& \text{ for } q >1\\ \left (q (1 -q)\right )^{-1/q} (M -m) ^{(1-q)/q} (u -m) & \text{ for } q <1.\end{cases} \] The main existence-uniqueness result in the paper is the following: Suppose \(q >0\) and \(u_0\in C(\mathbb R^n)\cap L^\infty (\mathbb R^n).\) Then problem (*) admits a unique solution \(u\in C^{2, 1}(S_T)\cap C(\overline{S_T})\cap L^{\infty} (S_T),\) such that \(m \leqslant u(x, t) \leqslant M\), \(\nabla u(x, t) \leqslant \theta_1 (u(x, t); m, M) t^{-1/2}\) and \(\nabla u(x, t)\leqslant \theta_2(u (x, t); m, M) t^{-1/q}\), if \(q\not= 1 \), for all \((x, t)\in S_T.\)