$C^1$-estimates in nonlocal parabolic problems
Under a minimal tail condition, local weak solutions to a class of nonlinear nonlocal parabolic equations modeled on the fractional heat equation possess continuous spatial derivatives.
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Under a minimal tail condition, local weak solutions to a class of nonlinear nonlocal parabolic equations modeled on the fractional heat equation possess continuous spatial derivatives.
We establish an integral Harnack inequality and expansion of positivity for solutions to fractional porous medium-type equations in the fast diffusion regime, under optimal tail assumptions.
For $q \in (0, \infty)$, we consider the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem to doubly nonlinear systems of the form \begin{align*} \partial_t \big( |u|^{q-1}u \big) - \operatorname{div} \big( D_ξf(x,u,Du) \big) = - D_u f(x,u,Du) \end{align*} in a bounded noncylindrical domain $E \subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. We assume that $x \mapsto f(x,u,ξ)$ is integrable, that $(u,ξ) \mapsto f(x,u,ξ)$ is convex, and that $f$ satisfies a $p$-coercivity condition for some $p \in (1,\infty)$. However, we do not impose any specific growth condition from above on $f$. For nondecreasing domains that merely satisfy $\mathcal{L}^{n+1}(\partial E) = 0$, we prove the existence of variational solutions $u \in C^{0}([0,T];L^{q+1}(E,\mathbb{R}^N))$ via a nonlinear version of the method of minimizing movements. Moreover, under additional assumptions on $E$ and a $p$-growth condition on $f$, we show that $|u|^{q-1}u$ admits a weak time derivative in the dual $(V^{p,0}(E))^{\prime}$ of the subspace $V^{p,0}(E) \subset L^p(0,T;W^{1,p}(Ω,\mathbb{R}^N))$ that encodes zero boundary values.
We consider the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem to doubly nonlinear systems of the form \begin{align*} \partial_t \big( |u|^{q-1}u \big) - \operatorname{div} \big( D_ξf(x,u,Du) \big) = - D_u f(x,u,Du) \end{align*} with $q \in (0, \infty)$ in a bounded noncylindrical domain $E \subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. Further, we suppose that $x \mapsto f(x,u,ξ)$ is integrable, that $(u,ξ) \mapsto f(x,u,ξ)$ is convex, and that $f$ satisfies a $p$-growth and -coercivity condition for some $p>\max \big\{ 1,\frac{n(q+1)}{n+q+1} \big\}$. Merely assuming that $\mathcal{L}^{n+1}(\partial E) = 0$, we prove the existence of variational solutions $u \in L^\infty\big( 0,T;L^{q+1}(E,\mathbb{R}^N)\big)$. If $E$ does not shrink too fast, we show that for the solution $u$ constructed in the first step, $\vert u \vert^{q-1}u$ admits a distributional time derivative. Moreover, under suitable conditions on $E$ and the stricter lower bound $p \geq \frac{(n+1)(q+1)}{n+q+1}$, $u$ is continuous with respect to time.