A-priori bound on parabolic PDE that doesn't depend on end time - MathOverflow most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-22T21:40:56Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/question/103528 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/103528/a-priori-bound-on-parabolic-pde-that-doesnt-depend-on-end-time A-priori bound on parabolic PDE that doesn't depend on end time poe 2012-07-30T16:48:49Z 2012-07-30T20:49:47Z <p>I have a PDE $$u_t = a(x,t)u_{xx} + b(x,t)u_{x} + c(x,t)u + f$$ where the coefficients are in parabolic Holder space $\widetilde{C}^{0, \alpha}(I \times [0,T])$ where $I=[0,2\pi]$. The a-priori bound (eg. from Krylov's book) is $$\lVert u \rVert_{\widetilde{C}^{2, \alpha}(I \times [0,T])} \leq C\left(\lVert f \rVert_{\widetilde{C}^{0, \alpha}(I \times [0,T])} + \lVert u_0 \rVert_{\widetilde{C}^{2, \alpha}(I \times [0,T])}\right)$$ where the constant $C$ depends on the endtime $T.$</p> <p>Does anyone know how to remove this dependence on $T$? I think there might be a way to do it by considering the PDE obtained when we change the coefficients somehow but am not sure. </p>