On the Hölder regularity of signed solutions to a doubly nonlinear equation. Part II

Verena Bögelein, Frank Duzaar, Naian Liao, Leah Schätzler

Published 2021-08-05Version 1

We demonstrate two proofs for the local H\"older continuity of possibly sign-changing solutions to a class of doubly nonlinear parabolic equations whose prototype is \[ \partial_t\big(|u|^{q-1}u\big)-\Delta_p u=0,\quad p>2,\quad 0<q<p-1. \] The first proof takes advantage of the expansion of positivity for the degenerate, parabolic $p$-Laplacian, thus simplifying the argument; whereas the other proof relies solely on the energy estimates for the doubly nonlinear parabolic equations. After proper adaptions of the interior arguments, we also obtain the boundary regularity for initial-boundary value problems of Dirichlet type and Neumann type.