We study the problem ∂b(x,u)/∂t - div(a(x,t,u,Du)) + H(x,t,u,Du) = μ in Q = Ω×(0,T), ${b(x,u)|}_{t=0}=b(x,u₀)$ in Ω, u = 0 in ∂Ω × (0,T). The main contribution of our work is to prove the existence of a renormalized solution without the sign condition or the coercivity condition on H(x,t,u,Du). The critical growth condition on H is only with respect to Du and not with respect to u. The datum μ is assumed to be in $L¹\left(Q\right)+L^{p^{\text{'}}}(0,T;W^{-1,p^{\text{'}}}\left(\Omega \right))$ and b(x,u₀) ∈ L¹(Ω).

We establish the existence of solutions for evolution equations in Hilbert spaces with anti-periodic boundary conditions. The energies associated to these evolution equations are quadratic forms. Our approach is based on application of the Schaefer fixed-point theorem combined with the continuity method.

The paper is devoted to the study of the existence of solutions for nonlinear nonmonotone evolution equations in Banach spaces involving anti-periodic boundary conditions. Our approach in this study relies on the theory of monotone and maximal monotone operators combined with the Schaefer fixed-point theorem and the monotonicity method. We apply our abstract results in order to solve a diffusion equation of Kirchhoff type involving the Dirichlet $p$-Laplace operator.

We prove existence of weak solutions to doubly degenerate diffusion equations $$\dot{u}={\Delta }_p{u}^{m-1}+f(m,p\ge 2)$$ by Faedo-Galerkin approximation for general domains and general nonlinearities. More precisely, we discuss the equation in an abstract setting, which allows to choose function spaces corresponding to bounded or unbounded domains $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^n$ with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. The function $f$ can be an inhomogeneity or a nonlinearity involving terms of the form $f\left(u\right)$ or $div\left(F\right(u\left)\right)$. In the appendix, an introduction to weak differentiability...

We study the existence of solutions of the nonlinear parabolic problem $\partial u/\partial t-div\left[\right|Du-\Theta \left(u\right){|}^{p-2}(Du-\Theta \left(u\right))]+\alpha \left(u\right)=f$ in ]0,T[ × Ω, $\left(\right|Du-\Theta \left(u\right){|}^{p-2}(Du-\Theta \left(u\right)))·\eta +\gamma \left(u\right)=g$ on ]0,T[ × ∂Ω, u(0,·) = u₀ in Ω, with initial data in L¹. We use a time discretization of the continuous problem by the Euler forward scheme.