Local estimates and global existence for strongly nonlinear parabolic equations with locally integrable data (Q862247)

In the present study the authors prove the existence of distributional solutions for two classes of strongly nonlinear Cauchy problems, which include, as model examples \[ \begin{cases} u_t-\text{div}\bigl(|Du|^{p-2}Du \bigr)+g(u)=f(x,t)\quad & \text{in }\mathbb{R}^d\times(0,T),\\ u(x,0)=u_0(x) \quad \text{in }\mathbb{R}^d\end{cases}\tag{1} \] and \[ \begin{cases} u_t-\text{div} \bigl(|Du|^{p-2}Du\bigr)+j(u)=|Du|^p+f(x,t)\quad & \text{in }\mathbb{R}^d x(0,T),\\ u(x,0)=u_0(x)\quad & \text{in }\mathbb{R}^d.\end{cases}\tag{2} \] The authors obtain at first local a priori estimates and consequently global existence results. The results were obtained under optimal growth conditions on the zero-order terms.