Global solutions to viscous hamilton-jacob1 equations with irregular initial data (Q4719934)

It is investigated the existence and uniqueness of non-negative weak solutions to the initial value problem \[ u_t-\delta u+|\nabla u|^p=0\;\text{in} (0,\infty)\times {\mathbb R}^n,\quad u(0,\cdot)=u_0\;\text{in} {\mathbb R}^n, \] where \(u_0\) belongs to various spaces for different values of \(p\). It is studied the large time behaviour of the \(L^1\)-norm of the solutions to the problem. Using a Bernstein technique the authors estimate the \(L^\infty\)-norm of the gradient of \(u^{(p-1)/p}\).