A gradient maximum principle of solutions for a quasilinear parabolic equation

This short note is concerned with a quasilinear diffusion equation under initial and Neumann boundary value condition. To be more precise, the authors establish a gradient maximum principle of classical solutions via the maximum principle and Hopf’s lemma. The result generalizes a recent work obtained by Kim (Proc Amer Math Soc 145:1203–1208, 2017).