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Global Calderon-Zygmund estimates for irregular double-phase evolution problem with non-divergence data

Analysis of PDEs 2026-07-05 v1

Abstract

We study irregular double-phase parabolic equations with variable exponents and non-divergence data, utdiv(F(z,u)u)=f(z),z=(x,t)QT:=Ω×(0,T), u_t-\operatorname{div} \left(\mathcal{F}(z,\nabla u)\nabla u \right)=f(z),\quad z=(x,t)\in Q_T:=\Omega\times (0,T), under the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. Here, ΩRN\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N, N2N \geq 2, is a bounded domain, T>0T>0, F(z,u)=a(z)up(z)2+b(z)uq(z)2 \mathcal{F}(z,\nabla u)=a(z)|\nabla u|^{p(z)-2} + b(z) |\nabla u |^{q(z)-2} with given Lipschitz-continuous exponents p,qp,q that satisfy a suitable balance condition. The nonnegative coefficients a(z),b(z)a(z), b(z) satisfy the inequality a(z)+b(z)>0a(z)+b(z)>0 in QTQ_T, the space and time derivatives of aa and bb belong to Ld(QT)L^d(Q_T) with some dd depending on the data. If fLσ(QT)for σ(2,N+2]andF((,0),u0)u0r+2L1(Ω), f\in L^\sigma(Q_T) \quad \text{for} \ \sigma \in (2, N+2] \quad \text{and} \quad \mathcal{F}((\cdot,0),\nabla u_0)\,|\nabla u_0|^{r+2}\in L^1(\Omega), where 0rK(N,σ,p,q)0\le r\le K(N,\sigma,p,q) if σ<N+2\sigma<N+2, while r0r\ge0 is arbitrary if σ=N+2\sigma=N+2, then the problem has a unique strong solution, for which we prove the global transfer of integrability from the initial data and the forcing term to the double-phase flux in the spirit of Calder\'on-Zygmund theory, higher integrability of the gradient, and the second-order space regularity: F((,t),u(,t))u(,t)r+2L1(Ω) for a.e. t(0,T),u2(min{p(z),q(z)}1)+r+sL1(QT) for every s(0,4N+2),F(z,u)ur+22L2(0,T;W1,2(Ω)). \begin{split} & \text{$\mathcal{F}((\cdot,t),\nabla u(\cdot,t))|\nabla u(\cdot,t)|^{r+2}\in L^1(\Omega)$ for a.e. $t\in (0,T)$}, \\ & \text{$|\nabla u|^{2(\min\{p(z),q(z)\}-1)+r+s}\in L^1(Q_T)$ for every $s\in\left(0,\frac{4}{N+2}\right)$}, \\ & \mathcal{F}(z,\nabla u)|\nabla u|^{\frac{r+2}{2}} \in L^2(0,T;W^{1,2}(\Omega)). \end{split} The results improve and complement the results in \cite{Arora-Shmarev-JGA-2026} and extend them to the full range r0r \geq 0.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.04492,
  title  = {Global Calderon-Zygmund estimates for irregular double-phase evolution problem with non-divergence data},
  author = {Rakesh Arora and Sergey Shmarev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.04492},
  year   = {2026}
}

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