\(W^{1,p}\) regularity for the conormal derivative problem with parabolic BMO nonlinearity in Reifenberg domains (Q928452)

In this note the authors study global regularity of the spatial gradient of weak solutions of the problem \[ \begin{cases} u_t - \operatorname{div} a(\nabla_xu, x, t)=\operatorname{div} f&\text{in }\Omega_T,\\ [a(\nabla_xu, x, t)+f]\cdot \nu =0 &\text{on }\partial \Omega \times [0,T],\\ u=f &\text{on }\partial \Omega\times\{t=0\},\end{cases} \] where \(\Omega \subset\mathbb R^n \) is an open bounded set, \(\nu=(\nu_1, \ldots, \nu_n)\) is the outward pointing unit normal to the boundary \(\partial \Omega, \) \(f \in L^p(\Omega_T), \) \(2 \leq p < \infty, \) \(a=a(\chi,x,t) \) is measurable in \((x,t) \) for each \(\chi \), continuous and uniformly monotonic function in \(\chi \) for each \((x,t). \) Also \(a\) satisfies \[ | a(\chi,x,t)| \leq c_1(1+| \chi| ) \] and \[ | \nabla_x a(\chi,x,t)| \leq c_2, \] for all \(\chi \in\mathbb R^n \) and \((x,t) \in\mathbb R^n \times\mathbb R\). Specifically interesting results are obtained on the conormal derivative problem for the nonlinear parabolic equation in divergence form with small BMO nonlinearity in a domain having boundary flat in the Reifenberg sense.