Interior differentiability results for nonlinear variational parabolic systems with nonlinearity \(1<q<2\) (Q2430786)

The paper under review is concerned with the parabolic system \[ \frac{\partial u_i}{\partial t}- \sum^n_{j=1} D_ja_i^j(x,t,u,Du)= B^0_i(x,t,u,Du), \quad (x,t)\in Q, \;i=1,\dots,N, \] where \(u=(u_1,\dots,u_N)\), \(Du= (D_ju_i)_{\substack{ j=1,\dots,n\\ i=1,\dots,N}}\), \(D_j=\frac{\partial} {\partial x_j}\), \(Q= \Omega\times (-T,0)\), \(\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n\) open and bounded. The assumptions on the functions \(p\mapsto a(x,t,u,p)\) are as follows: there exist positive constants \(M(K)\) and \(\nu(K)\) such that \[ \begin{aligned} |a(x,t,u,p) - a(x,t,u,\bar{p})| &\leq M(K)(1+|p|^2 + |\bar{p}|^2)^{\frac{q-2}{2}} |p-\bar{p}|, \\ (a(x,t,u,p) - a(x,t,u,\bar{p})) \cdot (p-\bar{p}) &\geq \nu(K) (1+|p|^2 + |\bar{p}|^2)^{\frac{q-2}{2}}|p-\bar{p}|^2, \end{aligned} \] for all \((x,t)\in Q\), for all \(u\in\mathbb R^N\) with \(|u|\leq K\) and for all \(p, \bar{p}\in \mathbb R^{nN}\), where \(1<q<2\). The conditions on boundedness and continuity of the functions \(a^j\) and \(B^0\) involve the weight \(V{(p)} = (1+|p|^2)^{\frac{1}{2}}\) (\(p\in\mathbb R^{nN}\)). Under these assumptions the authors prove that any weak solution \(u\in L^q(-T,0; W^{1,q} (\Omega,\mathbb R^N))\cap C^{0,\lambda}(\overline{Q},\mathbb R^N)\) (\(0<\lambda<1\)) satisfies, for any \(a\in (0,T]\) and any ball \(B_{3r}(x_0)\Subset\Omega\), \[ u\in L^q(-a,0; W^{2,q}(B_r,\mathbb R^N))\cap W^{1,q}(-a,0;L^q(B_r,\mathbb R^N)) \] where the norms of the second order \(x\)-derivatives and the \(t\)-derivative of \(u\) can be estimated by \[ \int^0_{-b} \bigg( \int_{B_{3r}} (1+|Du|^q)\,dx\bigg) \,dt, \quad a<b<T. \]