Lipschitz regularity for a homogeneous doubly nonlinear PDE

Abstract

We study the doubly nonlinear PDE $$ |\partial_t u|^{p-2}\,\partial_t u-\textrm{div}(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)=0. $$ This equation arises in the study of extremals of Poincar\'e inequalities in Sobolev spaces. We prove spatial Lipschitz continuity and H\"older continuity in time of order $(p-1)/p$ for viscosity solutions. As an application of our estimates, we obtain pointwise control of the large time behavior of solutions.