Local Hölder continuity for some doubly nonlinear parabolic equations in measure spaces (Q1934998)

It is studied the regularity question for the nonnegative weak solutions of the doubly nonlinear equation \[ \frac{\partial (u^q)}{\partial t} - \nabla\,(|\nabla|^{p-2}) = 0, \] which appears in the modeling of turbulent filtration. To establish the local Hölder continuity result, the authors introduce into the consideration the notion of a weak solution of the equation as a measurable function \(u \in L^p_{\text{loc}}(\tau_1,\tau_2; H_{\text{loc}}^{1,p}(U;\mu))\) which satisfies for any compact \(\Omega \subset U\) and for almost every \(\tau_1 < t_1 < t_2 < \tau_2\) the integral identity associated with the above-mentioned equation. Here \(\mu\) is a Borel measure, \(U\) is an open set in \(\mathbb R^d\), and \(H_{\text{loc}}^{1,p}(U;\mu)\) denotes the local Sobolev space. The main result of the paper reads: Let \(p > 2\) and \(0 < q < 1\) and assume that the measure \(\mu\) is doubling and supports a weak \((1,p)\)-Poincaré inequality. Then any non-negative bounded weak solution of the equation is locally Hölder continuous. The proof involves the method of intrinsic scaling.