Generalized Morrey estimates for the gradient of divergence form parabolic operators with discontinuous coefficients (Q2347818)

\textit{S.-S. Byun} et al. [Int. Math. Res. Not. 2013, No. 13, 3053--3086 (2013; Zbl 1319.35074)] considered a parabolic system in divergence form with measurable coefficients in a non-smooth bounded domain to obtain a global gradient estimate for the weak solution in the setting of Orlicz spaces. The coefficients are assumed to be merely measurable in one spatial variable and to have small BMO semi-norms in all other variables. The boundary of the domain can be locally approximated by a hyperplane, a so-called Reifenberg-flat domain. The authors obtain such estimates on a generalized Morrey space \(M^{p,\varphi}\). Let \(\Omega \subset {\mathbb R}^n\) be a bounded domain, \(n \geq 2,\) and \(Q= \Omega\times (0,T]\) be a cylinder in \({\mathbb R}^{n+1}\) with base \(\Omega\) and height \(T\). The authors consider the problem \[ \begin{cases} u_t - D_{\alpha}(a^{\alpha \beta}(x,t) D_{\beta} u) = D_{\alpha} f^{\alpha}(x,t) &\quad \text{in } Q, \\ u(x,t)=0 &\quad \text{on }, \partial_P Q, \end{cases} \] where \(\partial_P Q\) stands for the parabolic boundary of \(Q\) and the summation convention over the repeated lower and upper indices, running from \(1\) to \(n\), is adopted. Denote by \(\mathbf a\) the coefficient matrix \({\mathbf a}(x,t) = \{ a^{\alpha \beta}\}_{\alpha, \beta =1}^{n}: Q \to {\mathbb M}^{n \times n}\) and by \(\mathbf F\) the nonhomogeneous term \({\mathbf F}(x,t) = (f^{1}(x,t), \dots , f^{n}(x,t))\). Supposing that the operator is uniformly parabolic with measurable coefficients, they prove the estimate \[ \| Du \|_{M^{p,\varphi}(Q)} \leq \| {\mathbf F} \|_{M^{p,\varphi}(Q)}, \,2<p<\infty \] under some suitable conditions.