Boundary higher integrability for very weak solutions of quasilinear parabolic equations

Abstract

We prove boundary higher integrability for the (spatial) gradient of \emph{very weak} solutions of quasilinear parabolic equations of the form $$u_t-\text{div}\mathcal{A}(x,t,\nabla u)=0\text{on}\Omega \times \mathbb{R},$$ where the non-linear structure $\text{div}\mathcal{A}(x,t,\nabla u)$ is modelled after the $p$-Laplace operator. To this end, we prove that the gradients satisfy a reverse Hölder inequality near the boundary. In order to do this, we construct a suitable test function which is Lipschitz continuous and preserves the boundary values. \emph{These results are new even for linear parabolic equations on domains with smooth boundary and make no assumptions on the smoothness of $\mathcal{A}(x,t,\nabla u)$}. These results are also applicable for systems as well as higher order parabolic equations.