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Non-divergence Parabolic Equations of Second Order with Critical Drift in Lebesgue Spaces

Analysis of PDEs 2016-02-03 v3

Abstract

We consider uniformly parabolic equations and inequalities of second order in the non-divergence form with drift ut+Lu=ut+ijaijDiju+biDiu=0(0,0)-u_{t}+Lu=-u_{t}+\sum_{ij}a_{ij}D_{ij}u+\sum b_{i}D_{i}u=0\,(\geq0,\,\leq0) in some domain QRn+1Q\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}. We prove growth theorems and the interior Harnack inequality as the main results. In this paper, we will only assume the drift bb is in certain Lebesgue spaces which are critical under the parabolic scaling but not necessarily to be bounded. In the last section, some applications of the interior Harnack inequality are presented. In particular, we show there is a "universal" spectral gap for the associated elliptic operator. The counterpart for uniformly elliptic equations of second order in non-divergence form is shown in \cite{S10}.

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@article{arxiv.1511.01215,
  title  = {Non-divergence Parabolic Equations of Second Order with Critical Drift in Lebesgue Spaces},
  author = {Gong Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.01215},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

30 pages, the introduction is revised