Conditional stability for backward parabolic equations with $\mathrm{Log}{\mathrm{Lip}}_{\mathrm{t}}\times {\mathrm{Lip}}_{\mathrm{x}}$-coefficients

Abstract

In this paper we present an improvement of [Math. Ann. 345 (2009), 213--243], where the authors proved a result concerning continuous dependence for backward parabolic operators whose coefficients are Log-Lipschitz in $t$ and $C^2$ in $x$. The $C^2$ regularity with respect to $x$ had to be assumed for technical reasons. Here we remove this assumption, replacing it with Lipschitz-continuity. The main tools in the proof are Littlewood-Paley theory and Bony's paraproduct as well as a result of Coifman and Meyer [Astérisque 57, 1978, Th. 35].

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