Hölder estimates for solutions of uniformly degenerate quasilinear parabolic equations (Q1056826)

The author deals with the quasilinear parabolic equation \(u_ t- (a_{ij}(x,t,u)u_{x_ j};)_{x_ i}+b_ i(x,t,u)\partial u/\partial x_ i+c(x,t,u)\quad with\quad \nu (| u|)| \xi |^ 2\leq a_{ij}(x,t,u)\xi_ i\xi_ j\leq \Lambda \nu (| u|)| \xi |^ 2\) for any \(\xi \in {\mathbb{R}}^ n\) where \(\Lambda\) is a constant and \(\nu (0)=0\) and \(\nu (s)>0\) if \(s>0\). Applying the DeGiorgi iteration procedure the author establishes interior and global Hölder estimates for positive solutions u(x,t) of the first boundary value problem for the above equation with Hölder exponents and coefficients independent of the lower bound of u(x,t) under some assumptions.