# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

May  2013, 12(3): 1201-1220. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2013.12.1201

## Nonlinear anisotropic elliptic and parabolic equations with variable exponents and $L^1$ data

 1 Université Victor Ségalen - Bordeaux 2, 146 rue Léo Saignat, BP 26, 33076 Bordeaux 2 Centre of Mathematics for Applications, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1053, Blindern, NO-0316 Oslo, Norway 3 Ecole Centrale de nantes, Laboratoire de Mathématiques Jean Leray, UMR CNRS 6629, 1, rue de la Noé, 44321 Nantes

Received  September 2011 Revised  August 2012 Published  September 2012

We prove existence and regularity results for distributional solutions of nonlinear elliptic and parabolic equations with general anisotropic diffusivities with variable exponents. The data are assumed to be merely integrable.
Citation: Mostafa Bendahmane, Kenneth Hvistendahl Karlsen, Mazen Saad. Nonlinear anisotropic elliptic and parabolic equations with variable exponents and $L^1$ data. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2013, 12 (3) : 1201-1220. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2013.12.1201
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