We study the homogeneous Dirichlet problem for the evolution p-Laplacian with the nonlocal memory term
equation(0.1)
where Ω⊂Rn is a bounded domain, Θ, g and f are given functions. It is proved that for , g,g′∈L2(0,T) and , f∈L2(Q) the problem admits a weak solution, which is global or local in time in dependence on the growth rate of Θ(x,t,s) as |s|→∞. Conditions of uniqueness are established. It is proved that for p>2 and sΘ(x,t,s)≤0 the disturbances from the data propagate with finite speed and the “waiting time” effect is possible. We present simple explicit solutions that show the failure of the maximum and comparison principles for the solutions of equation (0.1).