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The regularity of general parabolic systems with degenerate diffusion
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Verena Bögelein, Verena Bögelein, Department Mathematik, Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg, Cauerstrasse 11, 91058 Erlangen, Germany, Frank Duzaar, Frank Duzaar, Department Mathematik, Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg, Cauerstrasse 11, 91058 Erlangen, Germany and Giuseppe Mingione, Giuseppe Mingione, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Parma, Viale Usberti 53/a, Campus, 43100 Parma, Italy
Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year:
2013; Volume 221, Number 1041
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-8975-6 (print); 978-0-8218-9465-1 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0065-9266-2012-00664-2
Published electronically: May 15, 2012
Keywords: Partial regularity,
degenerate parabolic systems,
singular parabolic systems,
$p$-caloric approximation
MSC: Primary 35K55, 35K65, 35K67
Table of Contents
Chapters
- 1. Introduction and Results
- 2. Technical preliminaries
- 3. Tools for the $p$-caloric approximation
- 4. The $p$-caloric approximation lemma
- 5. Caccioppoli and Poincaré type inequalities
- 6. Approximate $\mathcal A$-caloricity and $p$-caloricity
- 7. DiBenedetto & Friedman regularity theory revisited
- 8. Partial gradient regularity in the case $p>2$
- 9. The case $p<2$
- 10. Partial Lipschitz continuity of $u$
Abstract
The aim of the paper is twofold. On one hand we want to present a new technique called $p$-caloric approximation, which is a proper generalization of the classical compactness methods first developed by DeGiorgi with his Harmonic Approximation Lemma. This last result, initially introduced in the setting of Geometric Measure Theory to prove the regularity of minimal surfaces, is nowadays a classical tool to prove linearization and regularity results for vectorial problems. Here we develop a very far reaching version of this general principle devised to linearize general degenerate parabolic systems. The use of this result in turn allows to achieve the subsequent and main aim of the paper, that is the implementation of a partial regularity theory for parabolic systems with degenerate diffusion of the type \begin{equation}\tag {0.1} \partial _t u - \mathrm {div} a(Du)=0\,, \end{equation} without necessarily assuming a quasi-diagonal structure, i.e. a structure prescribing that the gradient non-linearities depend only on the explicit scalar quantity $|Du|$. Indeed, the by now classical theory of DiBenedetto (Degenerate parabolic equations, Universitext, New York, NY, Springer-Verlag, 1993) introduces the fundamental concept of intrinsic geometry and allows to deal with the classical degenerate parabolic $p$-Laplacian system \begin{equation}\tag {0.2} \partial _t u - \mathrm {div} (|Du|^{p-2}Du)=0 \end{equation} and more generally with systems of the type \begin{equation}\tag {0.3} \partial _t u - \mathrm {div} \big (g(|Du|)Du\big )=0\,. \end{equation} Here, we take such regularity results as a starting point and develop a partial regularity theory—regularity of solutions outside a negligible closed subset of the domain—applying to general degenerate parabolic systems of the type (0.1), thereby not necessarily satisfying a structure assumption as (0.1). The partial regularity rather than the everywhere one, is natural since even in the non-degenerate case, when considering systems with general structure, singularities may occur. The proof of the almost everywhere regularity of solutions is then achieved via an extremely delicate combination of local linearization methods, together with a proper use of DiBenedetto’s intrinsic geometry: the general approach that consists in performing the local analysis by considering parabolic cylinders whose space-time scaling depend on the local behavior of the solution itself. The combination of these approaches was exactly the missing link to prove partial regularity for general parabolic systems considered in (0.1). In turn, the implementation realizing such a matching between the two existing theories is made possible by the $p$-caloric approximation lemma. More precisely, the proof involves two different kinds of linearization techniques: a more traditional one in those zones where the system is non-degenerate and the original solution is locally compared to solutions of a suitable linear system, and a degenerate one in the zones where the system is truly degenerate and the solution can be compared with solutions of systems as (0.1) via the $p$-caloric approximation lemma.- Emilio Acerbi and Nicola Fusco, Semicontinuity problems in the calculus of variations, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 86 (1984), no. 2, 125–145. MR 751305, DOI 10.1007/BF00275731
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