Borderline gradient continuity for the normalized $p$-parabolic operator

Abstract

In this paper, we prove gradient continuity estimates for viscosity solutions to $\Delta_{p}^N u- u_t= f$ in terms of the scaling critical $L(n+2,1 )$ norm of $f$, where $\Delta_{p}^N$ is the game theoretic normalized $p-$Laplacian operator defined in (1.2) below. Our main result, Theorem 2.5 constitutes borderline gradient continuity estimate for $u$ in terms of the modified parabolic Riesz potential $\mathbf{P}^{f}_{n+1}$ as defined in (2.8) below. Moreover, for $f \in L^{m}$ with $m>n+2$, we also obtain H\"older continuity of the spatial gradient of the solution $u$, see Theorem 2.6 below. This improves the gradient H\"older continuity result in [3] which considers bounded $f$. Our main results Theorem 2.5 and Theorem 2.6 are parabolic analogues of those in [9]. Moreover differently from that in [3], our approach is independent of the Ishii-Lions method which is crucially used in [3] to obtain Lipschitz estimates for homogeneous perturbed equations as an intermediate step.