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Harnack inequality for singular or degenerate parabolic equations in non-divergence form

Analysis of PDEs 2024-10-11 v2

Abstract

This paper studies a class of linear parabolic equations in non-divergence form in which the leading coefficients are measurable and they can be singular or degenerate as a weight belonging to the A1+1nA_{1+\frac{1}{n}} class of Muckenhoupt weights. Krylov-Safonov Harnack inequality for solutions is proved under some smallness assumption on a weighted mean oscillation of the weight. To prove the result, we introduce a class of generic weighted parabolic cylinders and the smallness condition on the weighted mean oscillation of the weight through which several growth lemmas are established. Additionally, a perturbation method is used and the parabolic Aleksandrov-Bakelman-Pucci type maximum principle is crucially applied to suitable barrier functions to control the solutions. As corollaries, H\"{o}lder regularity estimates of solutions with respect to a quasi-distance, and a Liouville type theorem are obtained in the paper.

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@article{arxiv.2409.09437,
  title  = {Harnack inequality for singular or degenerate parabolic equations in non-divergence form},
  author = {Sungwon Cho and Junyuan Fang and Tuoc Phan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.09437},
  year   = {2024}
}

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46 pages; edited here and there; version submitted to a journal for publication