Topological characteristic of fully nonlinear parabolic boundary value problems (Q1882609)

This paper is devoted to investigating a general nonlinear initial boundary value problem \[ \frac{\partial u}{\partial t}-F(x, t, u, D^1u,\dots, D^{2m}u)=f(x, t),\quad (x, t)\in \Omega\times(0, T), \] \[ G_j(x, t, u, D^1u,\dots, D^{m_j}u)= g_j(x, t),\quad (x, t)\in \partial\Omega\times(0, T),\;j=1,\dots, m, \] \[ u(x, 0)=h(x), \quad x\in\Omega, \] in the Sobolev space \(W_p^{(4m, 2)}(Q_T)\) for \(p\geq 2\), \(p>(2m+n)/2m\), \(p\not=(2m+1)/(2m-m_j)\), \(m_j\leq 2m-1\), \(j=1,\dots, m.\) The main result of this paper is to reduce the above problem to an operator equation \(Au=0.\) The local and global solvability of the problem are obtained by topological methods. Moreover, further applications involving the convergence of Galerkin approximations are given.