Parabolic Harnack inequality for time-dependent non-symmetric Dirichlet forms (Q781637)

The author studies the parabolic Harnack inequality in the context of an abstract Dirichlet space satisfying volume doubling and Poincaré inequality provided that the metric is induced by the Dirichlet form. Moser noticed that the parabolic Harnack inequality implies that weak solutions of the heat equation are locally bounded and Hölder continuous. Here the author extends these results to the time-dependent non-symmetric bilinear forms. More precisely, the main results of the present work are \(L^p\)-mean value estimates, the local boundedness of weak solutions and the parabolic Harnack inequality. It is also essential for applications that this work treats equations associated with forms that are not necessarily Dirichlet forms but, instead, introduces a setting that mimic general operators in divergence form in Euclidean space. This paper is based on a previous joint work of the author with Laurent Saloff-Coste.