Harnack inequality for parabolic quasi minimizers on metric spaces (Q2658505)

The author is concerned with local parabolic quasi-minimizers \(u\) on metric measure spaces. The measure space is assumed to fulfill a doubling and an annular-decay property and to support a weak (1;p)-Poincaré inequality, while \(u\) is associated to a Carathéodory integrand \(f\) obeying \(p\)-growth assumptions for \(p\geq 2\). A parabolic Harnack inequality is proved under these assumptions. The quadratic case \(p=2\) has already been considered by \textit{J. Kinnunen} et al. [Adv. Differ. Equ. 17, No. 9-10, 801--832 (2012; Zbl 1255.30057)], whereas the superquadratic case has not even been treated in the Euclidean setting. The proof follows the ideas introduced by \textit{E. DiBenedetto} et al. [Acta Math. 200, No. 2, 181--209 (2008; Zbl 1221.35213)].