Boundary Value Problems for Higher Order Parabolic Equations

We consider a constant coefficient parabolic equation of order 2m and establish the existence of solutions to the initial-Dirichlet problem in cylindrical domains. The lateral data is taken from spaces of Whitney arrays which essentially require that the normal derivatives up to order m−1 lie in L2 with respect to surface measure. In addition, a regularity result for the solution is obtained if the data has one more derivative. The boundary of the space domain is given by the graph of a Lipschitz function. This provides an extension of the methods of Pipher and Verchota on elliptic equations to parabolic equations.