Special Session 5: Recent results in Nonlinear PDEs

Gradient bounds/estimates for solutions to some nonlinear elliptic equations and parabolic equations

Zu Gao
Wuhan University of Technology
Peoples Rep of China
Co-Author(s):    Cecilia Cavaterra, Serena Dipierro, Alberto Farina, Enrico Valdinoci
Abstract:
We give pointwise gradient bounds for solutions of (possibly non-uniformly) elliptic partial differential equations in the entire Euclidean space. The operator taken into account is very general and comprises also the singular and degenerate nonlinear case with non-standard growth conditions. The sourcing term is also allowed to have a very general form. Besides, we also provide global gradient estimates for solutions to a general type of nonlinear parabolic equations, possibly in a Riemannian geometry setting. Our result is new in comparison with the existing ones in the literature, in light of the validity of the estimates in the global domain, and it detects several additional regularity effects due to special parabolic data.