We develop an improved version of the parabolic Lipschitz truncation, which allows qualitative control of the distributional time derivative and the preservation of zero boundary values. As a consequence, we establish a new caloric approximation lemma.
We show that almost p-caloric functions are close to p-caloric functions. The distance is measured in terms of spatial gradients as well as almost uniformly in time.
Both results are extended to the setting of Orlicz growth.