Regularity for parabolic systems of Uhlenbeck type with Orlicz growth

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Quasilinear parabolic equations (35K59) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65) Quasilinear parabolic equations with (p)-Laplacian (35K92)

Abstract: We study the local regularity of

p

-caloric functions or more generally of

p h i

-caloric functions. In particular, we study local solutions of non-linear parabolic systems with homogeneous right hand side, where the leading terms has Uhlenbeck structure of Orlicz type. This paper closes the gap of [22] where Liebermann proved that if the gradient of a solution is bounded, it is H"older continuous. The crucial step is a novel local estimates for the gradient of the solutions, which generalize and improve the pioneering estimates of DiBenedetto and Friedman [12,10] for the

p

-Laplace heat equation.

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The local Hölder continuity of the spatial gradient $\nabla\overline u=(\nabla u_1,\nabla u_2,\dots,\nabla u_N)$ is obtained for the system \[ \frac{\partial\overline u}{\partial t}= \text{div} \left(\frac{\phi'(|\nabla\overline u|)}{|\nabla\overline u|}\,\nabla\overline u\right) \] in $\Omega\times(0,T)$, $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$. Here $\phi(\tau)$ is an Orlicz function satisfying natural assumptions. (It is certainly enough that the Mach number $M^2= 1-\tau\phi(\tau)/\phi'(\tau)$, $-\infty<M^2<1$ is bounded away from $-\infty$ and $+1$.) For example, $\phi(\tau)= \tau^p/p$ yiels the well-known evolutionary $p$-Laplace system. The main difficulty is to construct a suitable local bound of $\sup|\nabla\overline u|$. The main result is the estimate \[\min\left\{\alpha^{\frac{n}{2}-1}\Vert \nabla\overline u\Vert^\nu_{L^\infty(Q)},\ \alpha^{-1}\Vert\nabla\overline u\Vert^2_{L^\infty(Q)}\right\}\le C\iint_{2Q} \left(\alpha^{-1}|\nabla\overline u|^2+\phi(|\nabla\overline u|)\right) dx\,dt,\] where $\nu=1+n(p-2)/2$. Here $Q$ is some space $x$ time cylinder. This is an expedient improvement of a similar estimate by \textit{E. Di Benedetto} and \textit{A. Friedman} [J. Reine Angew. Math. 357, 1--22 (1985; Zbl 0549.35061)] in the sense that, if the average conclude that $\sup|\nabla\overline u|$ is small. The scalar case has been treated by \textit{P. Baroni} and \textit{C. Lindfors} [Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré, Anal. Non Linééaire 34, No. 3, 593--624 (2017; Zbl 1366.35056)].

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