Global higher integrability of weak solutions of porous medium systems (Q2300996)

The authors establish higher integrability up to the boundary (lateral and initial) of the gradient of solutions to porous medium type systems of this type: \[ \partial_t u - \operatorname{div} A(x, t, u, D(|u|^{m-1}u)) = \operatorname{div} F \] in \(\Omega_T := \Omega \times(0, T)\), and \(u = g\) on \(\partial_{par}\Omega_T\), and \(u(0,x) = u_0(x)\). More precisely, they prove that under suitable assumptions the spatial gradient \(D(|u|^{m-1}u)\) of any weak solution is integrable to a larger power than the natural power \(2\). We recall that for the \(p\)-Laplacian, the higher regularity problem was solved by [\textit{J. Kinnunen} and \textit{J. L. Lewis}, Duke Math. J. 102, No. 2, 253--271 (2000; Zbl 0994.35036)]. The corresponding question for porous medium type equations stayed open for a long time and was solved, for the interior of the domain, only few years ago by \textit{U. Gianazza} and \textit{S. Schwarzacher} [J. Funct. Anal. 277, No. 12, Article ID 108291, 57 p. (2019; Zbl 1423.35218)]. In this paper, the authors extend their results up to the boundary.