H\"older regularity of doubly nonlinear nonlocal quasilinear parabolic equations in some mixed singular-degenerate regime

TL;DR

This paper proves H"older regularity for solutions of a class of nonlocal doubly nonlinear parabolic equations in a mixed singular-degenerate regime, extending known results and introducing new intrinsic scaling techniques.

Contribution

It introduces a novel intrinsic scaling approach to establish H"older regularity in the challenging mixed singular-degenerate nonlocal regime.

Findings

Proves H"older regularity in the mixed singular-degenerate regime.

Develops a new intrinsic scaling method for nonlocal equations.

Highlights the non-stability of estimates as the nonlocal parameter s approaches zero.

Abstract

We study local H\"older regularity of bounded, weak solutions for the nonlocal quasilinear equations of the form \[ (|u|^{q-2}u)_t + \text{P.V.} \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} \frac{|u(x,t) - u(y,t)|^{p-2}(u(x,t)-u(y,t))}{|x-y|^{n+sp}} dy = 0, \] with $p\in (1,\infty)$, $q\in (1,\infty)$ and $s \in (0,1)$. Analogous H\"older continuity result in the local case is known in the purely singular case $\{1<p<2, p<q\}$, purely degenerate case $\{2<p, q<p\}$, scale invariant case $\{p=q\}$ and translation invariant case $\{q=2,1<p<\infty\}$. In the nonlocal setting, H\"older regularity is known when the equation is either translation invariant $\{q=2, 1<p<\infty\}$ or scale invariant $\{q=p, 1<p<\infty\}$ or purely degenerate case $\{2<p, q<p\}$. Similar strategy can be used to obtain H\"older regularity in the purely singular case $\{1<p<2, p<q\}$. In this paper, we adapt several ideas developed over the past few years and combine it with a new intrinsic scaling to prove H\"older regularity in the mixed singular-degenerate range $\max\{p,q,2\} < \min\left\{q + \tfrac{p-1}{1+\frac{n}{sp}}, 2 + \tfrac{p-1}{1+\frac{n}{sp}}\right\}$. The proof explicitly makes use of the nonlocal nature of the problem and as a consequence, our estimates are not stable at $s \rightarrow 0$. We note that the analogous regularity in the local problem remains open.