Boundary higher integrability for very weak solutions of quasilinear parabolic equations

We prove boundary higher integrability for the (spatial) gradient of very weak solutions of quasilinear parabolic equations of the form u(t) - div A(x, t, del u) = 0 on Omega x R, where the non-linear structure div A(x, t, del u) is modelled after the p-Laplace operator. To this end, we prove that the gradients satisfy a reverse Holder inequality near the boundary. In order to do this, we construct a suitable test function which is Lipschitz continuous and preserves the boundary values. These results are new even for linear parabolic equations on domains with smooth boundary and make no assumptions on the smoothness of A(x, t, del u). These results are also applicable for systems as well as higher order parabolic equations. (C) 2018 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.