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JOURNAL DE MATHEMATIQUES PURES ET APPLIQUEES
Volume 100, Issue 5, Pages 633-686Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.matpur.2013.01.016
Keywords
Linear and nonlinear parabolic equations; Global Lipschitz estimates; Liouville theorems; Viscosity solutions; Coupling methods
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- Indam GNAMPA
- Proprieta di regolarita in Equazioni alle Derivate Parziali nonlineari legate a problemi di controllo
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In this paper we prove global bounds on the spatial gradient of viscosity solutions to second order linear and nonlinear parabolic equations in (0, T) x R-N. Our assumptions include the case that the coefficients be both unbounded and with very mild local regularity (possibly weaker than the Dini continuity), the estimates only depending on the parabolicity constant and on the modulus of continuity of coefficients (but not on their L-infinity-norm). Our proof provides the analytic counterpart to the probabilistic proof used in Priola and Wang (2006) [35] (J. Funct. Anal. 2006) to get this type of gradient estimates in the linear case. We actually extend such estimates to the case of possibly unbounded data and solutions as well as to the case of nonlinear operators including Bellman-Isaacs equations. We investigate both the classical regularizing effect (at time t > 0) and the possible conservation of Lipschitz regularity from t = 0, and similarly we prove global Holder estimates under weaker assumptions on the coefficients. The estimates we prove for unbounded data and solutions seem to be new even in the classical case of linear equations with bounded and Holder continuous coefficients. Applications to Liouville type theorems are also given in the paper. Finally, we compare in an appendix the analytic and the probabilistic approach discussing the analogy between the doubling variables method of viscosity solutions and the probabilistic coupling method. (C) 2013 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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