Initial trace for a doubly nonlinear parabolic equation (Q409216)

This authors study the Cauchy problem for a class of doubly nonlinear parabolic equations introduced by \textit{N. S. Trudinger} [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 21, 205--226 (1968; Zbl 0159.39303)]. The main result shows that if there is a nonnegative solution of the Cauchy problem, then the initial trace of the solution is uniquely given as a nonnegative Borel measure satisfying an exponential growth condition. This extends to the nonlinear case the known result for the heat equation proved by \textit{D. G. Aronson} [Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa, Sci. Fis. Mat., III. Ser. 22, 607--694 (1968; Zbl 0182.13802)]. The proof is based on the scale and location invariant Harnack inequality.