Alternative Forms of the Harnack Inequality for Non-Negative Solutions to Certain Degenerate and Singular Parabolic Equations

Abstract

Non-negative solutions to quasi-linear, degenerate or singular parabolic partial differential equations, of p-Laplacian type for p > 2_N_/(N+1), satisfy Harnack-type estimates in some intrinsic geometry ([2, 3]). Some equivalent alternative forms of these Harnack estimates are established, where the supremum and the infimum of the solutions play symmetric roles, within a properly redefined intrinsic geometry. Such equivalent forms hold for the non-degenerate case p = 2 following the classical work of Moser ([5, 6]), and are shown to hold in the intrinsic geometry of these degenerate and/or parabolic p.d.e.’s. Some new forms of such an estimate are also established for 1 < p < 2.