Very weak solutions of higher-order degenerate parabolic systems (Q1028509)

The author study the parabolic \(p\)-Laplacian system of order \(2m\), \(m \in \mathbb N\), in its weak formulation \[ \int_{\Omega_T}u\cdot\varphi - \langle |D^mu|^{p-2}D^mu,D^m\varphi\rangle \,dz = 0,\quad \forall\varphi \in C_0^{\infty}(\Omega_T;\mathbb R^N). \] The so-called very weak solution of the associated parabolic system is defined as a function \[ u \in L^{p-\beta}(-T,0;W^{m,p-\beta}(\Omega;\mathbb R^N))\cap L^2(\Omega_T;\mathbb R^N) \] satisfying the above-mentioned integral identity. The main result of the paper is to ensure the existence of an exponent \(\beta > 0\) depending only on the data such that any very weak solution \(u\) is a weak solution i.e. \(D^m u \in L^{p-\beta} \Rightarrow D^mu \in L^{p+\beta}\).