Pointwise estimates via parabolic potentials for a class of doubly nonlinear parabolic equations with measure data (Q1785553)

In the space-time cylinder \(E_T:=E\times (0,T)\), where \(E\subset\mathbb R^n\) is an open bounded set, \(n\geq 2\), \(T>0\), the author considers the following Coauchy-Dirichlet problem \[ \begin{cases} u_t-\operatorname{div}\big(\mathbf A(x,t,u,Du)\big)=\mu, \quad \text{in}\quad E_T,\\ u=0,\quad \text{on}\quad \Gamma_T, \end{cases}\tag{1} \] where \(\mu\) is a non-negative Radon measure on \(E_T\) with finite total mass \(\mu(E_T)<\infty\) and \(\Gamma_T:=\big(\overline E\times \{0\}\big)\bigcup\big(\partial E\times(0,T)\big)\). The nonlinear parabolic equation \[ u_t-\operatorname{div}\big(| u|^{m-1}\,| Du|^{p-2}\,Du\big)=\mu, \quad \text{in}\quad E_T, \] is the model example for the equation from (1). The operator \(\mathbf A:E_T\times\mathbb R\times\mathbb R^n\mapsto\mathbb R\) satisfy the following ellipticity conditions: \textbf{(A1)} \(\mathbf A\) is measurable with respect to \((x,t)\in E_T\) for all \((u,\xi)\in \mathbb R\times\mathbb R^n\) and continuous with respect to \((u,\xi)\in \mathbb R\times\mathbb R^n\) for almost every \((x,t)\in E_T\);\,\, \textbf{(A2)}\, \(\big(\mathbf A(x,t,u,\xi),\xi\big)\geq C_0\,| u|^{m-1}\,|\xi|^{p}\);\,\, \textbf{(A3)}\, \(|\mathbf A(x,t,u,\xi)|\leq C_1 |u|^{m-1}\,|\xi|^{p-1}\), where \(C_0>0\), \(C_1>0\), \(p\geq 2\) and \(m>1\) in both conditions \textbf{(A2)} and \textbf{(A3)}. The main result of the paper is the following. Suppose that \(\mathbf A\) satisfies conditions \textbf{(A1)}--\textbf{(A3)} and \(\mu\in L^{q_1,q_2}_{\text{loc}}\big(E; L^{q_1,\infty}_{\text{loc}}(0,T)\big)\), for \(q_1=\frac{n+p}{p}\) and \(q_2=\frac{n+p}{n(p-1)+p}\). Then any weak solution \(u\) to the problem (1) is locally uniformly bounded in \(E_T\). The author also defines the nonlinear parabolic potentials for the equation (1) and in terms of these potentials establishes the pointwise estimates for weak solutions to the problem (1).