Harnack’s inequality for doubly nonlinear equations of slow diffusion type

Abstract

AbstractIn this article we prove a Harnack inequality for non-negative weak solutions to doubly nonlinear parabolic equations of the form $$\begin{aligned} \partial _t u - {{\,\mathrm{div}\,}}{\mathbf {A}}(x,t,u,Du^m) = {{\,\mathrm{div}\,}}F, \end{aligned}$$ ∂ t u - div A ( x , t , u , D u m ) = div F , where the vector field $${\mathbf {A}}$$ A fulfills p-ellipticity and growth conditions. We treat the slow diffusion case in its full range, i.e. all exponents $$m > 0$$ m > 0 and $$p>1$$ p > 1 with $$m(p-1) > 1$$ m ( p - 1 ) > 1 are included in our considerations.