Method of upper and lower solutions for parabolic-type equations with discontinuous nonlinearities (Q1874923)

Let \[ L\equiv\partial/\partial t-\sum^n_{i,j=1} \partial\bigl( a_{ij}(x,t) \partial/ \partial x_i\bigr)/ \partial x_j+\sum^n_{j=1} b_j(x,t) \partial/ \partial x_j+c(x,t) \] be a uniformly parabolic differential operator in a cylindrical domain \(Q_T=\Omega \times(0,T)\), \(\Omega\) be a bounded domain \(\mathbb{R}^n\) with boundary \(S\), whose coefficients \(a_{ij}\), \(b_j\), and \(c\) and the derivatives \((a_{ij})_{x_j}\) belong to the space \(L_\infty(Q_T)\). We consider the first boundary value problem \[ \begin{aligned} Lu(x,t) & =g \bigl(x,t,u(x,t) \bigr),\quad (x,t)\in Q_T,\\ u|_{\Gamma_T} & =0,\end{aligned} \] where \(\Gamma_T= (S\times (S\times [0,T))\cup \{(x,0)\mid x\in\Omega\}\) is the parabolic boundary of the cylinder \(Q_T\), the function \(g:Q_T\times \mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}\) equals the difference between compositionally measurable functions \(g_2(x,t,u)\) and \(g_1 (x,t,u)\) nondecreasing with respect to \(u\). The continuity of \(g(x,t,u)\) with respect to the phase variable \(u\) is not assumed.