Local and global estimates of the solutions of the Cauchy problem for quasilinear parabolic equations with a nonlinear operator of Baouendi-Grushin type (Q1033939)

The authors study the solution of the Cauchy problem for a quasilinear degenerate parabolic equation of the following form: \[ \begin{cases}\frac{\partial u}{\partial t}=L_{\lambda ,\alpha}[u]= \text{div}_L(|D_Lu|^{\lambda -1} D_Lu), &(x,y,t)\in \mathbb{R}^{N+M}\times(0,T), \\ u(x,y,0)= u_0(x,y), &x\in \mathbb{R}^N,\;y\in \mathbb{R} ^M,\\ u_0(x,y)\geq 0&\text{a.e. }x\in\mathbb{R}^N,\;y\in\mathbb{R}^M. \end{cases} \] Here \(\lambda >1,N\geq 1,M\geq 1.\) \[ \begin{aligned} D_Lu &= \left( \frac{\partial u}{\partial x_1}, \frac{\partial u}{\partial x_2} ,\dots,\frac{\partial u}{\partial x_N},|x|^\alpha \frac{\partial u }{\partial y_1},|x|^\alpha \frac{\partial u}{\partial y_2} ,\dots,|x|^\alpha \frac{\partial u}{\partial y_M}\right),\\ |D_Lu| &= \sqrt{\sum_{i=1}^N\left( \frac{\partial u}{ \partial x_i}\right) ^2+|x|^{2\alpha }\sum_{j=1}^M\left( \frac{\partial u}{\partial y_j}\right) ^2},\\ \text{div}_L\overrightarrow{F}(x,y) &= \sum_{i=1}^N\frac{\partial F_i}{\partial x_i}+|x|^\alpha \sum_{j=1}^M \frac{\partial F_{j+N}}{\partial y_j}. \end{aligned} \] The authors study the qualitative properties of the solution of \((1)\) where the operator is of Baouendi-Grushin type. They derive sharp local and global (with respect to the spatial and temporal variables) estimates of the solutions of \((1)\). The authors establish also the property of the finiteness of the support of the solution.