A new method to deal with the stability of the weak solutions for a nonlinear parabolic equation (Q725170)

Summary: Consider the nonlinear parabolic equation \(\partial u / \partial t - \operatorname{div}(a(x) | \nabla u |^{p - 2} \nabla u) = f(x, t, u, \nabla u)\) with \(a (x)|_{x \in \Omega} > 0\) and \(a(x)_{x \in \partial\Omega} = 0\). Though it is well known that the degeneracy of \(a(x)\) may cause the usual Dirichlet boundary value condition to be overdetermined, and only a partial boundary value condition is needed, since the nonlinearity, this partial boundary can not be depicted out by Fichera function as in the linear case. A new method is introduced in the paper; accordingly, the stability of the weak solutions can be proved independent of the boundary value condition.