Time analyticity for inhomogeneous parabolic equations and the Navier-Stokes equations in the half space

Abstract

We prove the time analyticity for weak solutions of inhomogeneous parabolic equations with measurable coefficients in the half space with either the Dirichlet boundary condition or the conormal boundary condition under the assumption that the solution and the source term have the exponential growth of order 2 with respect to the space variables. We also obtain the time analyticity for bounded mild solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the half space with the Dirichlet boundary condition. Our work is an extension of the recent work in [9,28], where the authors proved the time analyticity of solutions to the homogeneous heat equation and the Navier-Stokes equations in the whole space. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. time analyticity, parabolic equations, the Navier-Stokes equations.