Existence's results for parabolic problems related to fully non linear operators degenerate or singular (Q634191)

Parabolic problems of the type \[ u_t=F(x,\nabla u,D^2u)+h(x,t)\cdot \nabla{u}|\nabla{u}|^\alpha+f(x,t) \text{ in }Q_T, \] \[ u(x,t)=\psi(x,t)\text{ on }\partial Q_T, \] where \(Q_T=\Omega\times ]0,T[\) and \(\Omega\) is some bounded domain in \(\mathbb R^N\) and \(T>0\), are considered. The operator \(F\) is uniformly elliptic, homogeneous of degree \(\alpha\), \(\alpha >-1\), with respect to the gradient, and positively homogeneous of degree 1 with respect to the Hessian. This operator can be either degenerate \((\alpha >0)\) or singular \((\alpha <0)\). The purpose here is to present a convenient and new definition of viscosity solutions for this class of parabolic equations, the difficulty being that since the operator \(F\) is not defined on points where the gradient is zero, one cannot ``test'' such points. In the stationary case this difficulty is overcome by just ``not testing'', unless the function be locally constant. Here the situation is more involved and requires some testing. The existence of solutions for the Dirichlet problem is obtained using classical tools: the existence of lower and upper barriers, a comparison theorem and Perron's method. In the present article, most of these results require new techniques. For the sake of completeness, the author establishes some Hölder regularity result, under the assumptions that \(f\) is continuous and bounded in space and Hölder in time, and \(\psi\) is Hölderian in space and Lipschitz in time. The case of \(\Omega = \mathbb R^N\) is also treated, assuming that the data are uniformly continuous and bounded.