Global higher integrability for systems with $p$-growth structure in noncylindrical domains

Abstract

We consider the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem to systems with $p$-growth structure with $1 < p < \infty$, whose prototype is \begin{equation*} \partial_t u- \operatorname{div} \big( |Du|^{p-2} Du \big) = \operatorname{div} \left( |F|^{p-2} F \right), \end{equation*} in a bounded noncylindrical domain $E \subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. For $p> \frac{2(n+1)}{n+2}$ and domains $E$ that satisfy suitable regularity assumptions and do not grow or shrink too fast, we prove global higher integrability of $Du$. The result is already new in the case $p=2$.