Optimal Lp-Lq-estimates for parabolic boundary value problems with inhomogeneous data

In this paper we investigate vector-valued parabolic initial boundary value problems , subject to general boundary conditions in domains G in with compact C ^2m -boundary. The top-order coefficients of are assumed to be continuous. We characterize optimal L ^p -L ^q -regularity for the solution of such problems in terms of the data. We also prove that the normal ellipticity condition on and the Lopatinskii–Shapiro condition on are necessary for these L ^p -L ^q -estimates. As a byproduct of the techniques being introduced we obtain new trace and extension results for Sobolev spaces of mixed order and a characterization of Triebel-Lizorkin spaces by boundary data.