Singular solutions to parabolic equations in one space dimension

Abstract

We construct singular weak solutions to scalar, linear, uniformly parabolic equations with complex coefficients in one space dimension. Our examples show that the space-time integrability provided by the energy estimates is sharp: for every $p>6$, there exists such an equation admitting an energy solution that fails to be $p$-integrable on a compact subset of the space-time domain. In particular, the local boundedness of weak solutions from the De Giorgi--Nash--Moser theory fails for complex coefficients already in one space dimension.