Boundedness and contractive estimates for orthotropic, widely degenerate, doubly nonlinear diffusion equations
Abstract
We study the regularity of weak solutions to doubly nonlinear orthotropic evolution equations of the form ∂t(| u|α−1u)−∑i=1N∂i[ai(x,t) (|∂iu|−δi)+p−1∂iu/|∂iu|]=f in ΩT=Ω×(0,T), where Ω is a bounded open subset of ℝN for N≥2, the coefficients ai are measurable and bounded, α>0, p∈(1,∞) and δ1,…,δN are non-negative numbers. We show that weak solutions are locally bounded due to their membership in a suitable De Giorgi-type energy class. We also obtain contractive estimates and global boundedness in space for solutions to a Cauchy problem associated with the above PDE. Our analysis extends analogous results available in the literature for diffusion equations that either do not exhibit double nonlinearity or are less degenerate than those considered here. Another main novelty of this paper is the presence of a source term f on the right-hand side of the equation, for which we impose suitable integrability assumptions in the space-time variables.
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BibTeX
@misc{ambrosio2026boundedness,
title = {{Boundedness and contractive estimates for orthotropic, widely degenerate, doubly nonlinear diffusion equations}},
author = {Pasquale Ambrosio and Matias Vestberg},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.15360},
eprint = {2609.15360},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15360},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Boundedness and contractive estimates for orthotropic, widely degenerate, doubly nonlinear diffusion equations
AU - Pasquale Ambrosio
AU - Matias Vestberg
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/14
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.15360
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15360
AB - We study the regularity of weak solutions to doubly nonlinear orthotropic evolution equations of the form ∂_t(| u|^α−1u)−∑_i=1^N∂_i[a_i(x,t) (|∂_iu|−δ_i)_+^p−1∂_iu/|∂_iu|]=f in Ω_T=Ω×(0,T), where Ω is a bounded open subset of ℝ^N for N≥2, the coefficients a_i are measurable and bounded, α>0, p∈(1,∞) and δ_1,…,δ_N are non-negative numbers. We show that weak solutions are locally bounded due to their membership in a suitable De Giorgi-type energy class. We also obtain contractive estimates and global boundedness in space for solutions to a Cauchy problem associated with the above PDE. Our analysis extends analogous results available in the literature for diffusion equations that either do not exhibit double nonlinearity or are less degenerate than those considered here. Another main novelty of this paper is the presence of a source term f on the right-hand side of the equation, for which we impose suitable integrability assumptions in the space-time variables.
ER -