Harnack inequalities, exponential separation, and perturbations of principal Floquet bundles for linear parabolic equations (Q2467365)

The paper deals with the Dirichlet problem for linear nonautonomous second order parabolic equations is on bounded domains in a Euclidean space. It is assumed that the coefficients of the equations are bounded and measurable on bounded Lipschitz domains. By a new Harnack-type inequality for quotients of positive solutions, it is shown that each positive solution exponentially dominates any solution which changes sign for all times. The authors also examine the continuity and robustness properties of a principal Floquet bundle and the associated exponential separation under perturbations of the coefficients and spatial domains.