Let Ω be a bounded domain of RN(N≥2). We obtain a
necessary and a sufficient condition, expressed in terms of capacities, for
existence of a solution to the porous medium equation with absorption
\begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{l} {u_{t}}-{\Delta
}(|u|^{m-1}u)+|u|^{q-1}u=\mu ~ \text{in }\Omega \times (0,T), \\
{u}=0~~~\text{on }\partial \Omega \times (0,T), \\ u(0)=\sigma , \end{array}
\right. \end{equation*} where σ and μ are bounded Radon measures,
q>max(m,1), m>NN−2. We also obtain a sufficient condition for
existence of a solution to the p-Laplace evolution equation \begin{equation*}
\left\{ \begin{array}{l} {u_{t}}-{\Delta _{p}}u+|u|^{q-1}u=\mu ~~\text{in
}\Omega \times (0,T), \\ {u}=0 ~ \text{on }\partial \Omega \times (0,T), \\
u(0)=\sigma . \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} where q>p−1 and p>2