Well posedness of nonlinear parabolic systems beyond duality (Q2316453)

The paper deals with the nonlinear parabolic system with initial-boundary conditions \[ \begin{cases} \partial_tu-{\mathrm{div}}\,A(z;\nabla u)=-\mathrm{div}\,f,\,\,\,\text{in}\,\,\,Q_T,\\ u=\widetilde g,\,\,\,\text{on}\,\,\,\partial Q_T, \end{cases}\tag{1} \] where \(Q_T=\Omega\times (0,T)\), \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n\) is a bounded set (\(n\ge 2\)), \(\partial Q_T\equiv (\partial \Omega\times (0,T))\cup (\Omega\cup \{0\})\) is the parabolic boundary, the unknown function is the vector \(u:Q_T\to \mathbb{R}^N\) (\(N\in\mathbb{N}\)), and the given data are the following: the function \(z=z(x,t)\in Q_T\), the forcing \(f:Q_T\to \mathbb{R}^{n\times N}\), the nonlinear mapping \(A:Q_T\times \mathbb{R}^{n\times N}\to \mathbb{R}^{n\times N}\) and the initial-boundary values \(\widetilde g:\partial Q_T\to\mathbb{R}^N\). The authors investigate the existence, uniqueness and optimal regularity of solutions to problem \((1)\) when \(f\in L^q\) for \(q\in(1,\infty)\). They present and use a parabolic Lipschitz approximation method in weighted spaces, and then they develop a theory for linear parabolic systems with right-hand sides which belong to Muckenhoupt weighted \(L^q\) spaces.