Parabolic equations with non-standard growth and measure or integrable data

Abstract

We consider a parabolic partial differential equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions and measure or $L^1$ data. The key difficulty consists of the presence of a monotone operator $A$ subjected to a non-standard growth condition, controlled by the exponent $p$ depending on the time and the spatial variable. We show the existence of a weak and an entropy solution to our system, as well as the uniqueness of an entropy solution, under the assumption of boundedness and log-Hölder continuity of the variable exponent $p$ with respect to the spatial variable. On the other hand, we do not assume any smoothness of $p$ with respect to the time variable.