Existence to nonlinear parabolic problems with unbounded weights (Q2419912)

The authors consider a weighted operator $\Delta^{\omega}_p$ called in this paper $\omega - p$ Laplacian, which is defined as \[ \Delta^{\omega}_p u = \operatorname{div}(\omega(x)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u) \] with a certain weight function $ \omega : \Omega\mapsto \mathbb{R}$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain. The meaning of replacing $\Delta_p$ by $\Delta^{\omega}_p$ would describe space nonhomogeneity of the process. \par In this paper, the authors provide a clear, self-contained theory of existence for nonlinear parabolic equations of the type \[ u_t-\Delta^{\omega_2}_pu = \lambda \omega_1(x)|u|^{p-2}u \] in $\Omega \times T$ where $\omega_1$, $\omega_2$ are weights satisfying the Hardy-type inequality. The authors prove existence of a global weak solution in the weighted Sobolev spaces provided that $\lambda > 0$ is smaller than the optimal constant in the inequality. The obtained solution is proven to belong to \[ L^p(\mathbb{R}_+; W^{1,p}_{(\omega_1,\omega_2),0}(\Omega))\cap L^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}_+; L^2(\Omega)). \]