Gradient estimates for variable coefficient parabolic equations and singular perturbation problems

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It is studied the regularity of spatial gradients of solutions to second order uniformly parabolic equations in divergence form, with bounded lower order terms and Dini continuous coefficients of the type \[ \text{div } A(x,t)\nabla u-\partial_tu+b_i(x,t){\partial u\over\partial x_i}(x,t)+c(x,t)u(x)=f(x,t)+ \text{div }\vec g(x,t). \] Uniform spatial Lipschitz estimates are established for some singular perturbation problems. It is used a monotonicity formula approach to be shown that Dini continuity of the coefficients at a given point yields boundedness of the gradient at the same point. It is obtained a modulus of continuity estimate up to the boundary for gradients of solutions with smooth Dirichlet data. A compactness argument and a judicious application of Harnack's principle allow to obtain a Hopf maximum principle for the considered class of equations.




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