Compact embedding for \(p(x,t)\)-Sobolev spaces and existence theory to parabolic equations with \(p(x,t)\)-growth (Q506414)

The author establishes the compact embedding of \(p(x,t)\)-Sobolev spaces into \(p(x,t)\)-Lebesgue spaces. They prove some existence results for nonlinear parabolic problems of the form \[ \partial_tu-\text{div}\,a(x,t,Du)=f-\text{div}\,(|F|^{p(x,t)-2}F)\quad \text{on}\;\Omega_T, \] where \[ \begin{aligned} &|a(\cdot,w)|\leq L(1+|w|)^{p(\cdot)-1}\\ &(a(\cdot,w)-a(\cdot,w_0))\cdot(w-w_0)\geq \nu(\mu^2+|w|^2+|w_0|^2)^{\frac{p(\cdot)-2}2}|w-w_0|^2, \end{aligned} \] with \(w,w_0\in \mathbb R^n.\) The growth exponent \(p\) satisfies \[ \frac{2n}{n+2}<\gamma_1\leq p(\cdot)\leq\gamma_2\;\text{ and }\;|p(z_1)-p(z_2)|\leq \omega(d(z_1,z_2)). \]