Boundary regularity for nonlinear elliptic systems

We consider questions of boundary regularity for solutions of certain systems of second-order nonlinear elliptic equations. We obtain a general criterion for a weak solution to be regular in the neighbourhood of a given boundary point. The proof yields directly the optimal regularity for the solution in this neighbourhood. This result is new for the situation under consideration (general nonlinear second order systems in divergence form, with inhomogeneity obeying the natural growth conditions). Received: 6 July 2001 / Accepted: 27 September 2001 / Published online: 28 February 2002     

The method of A-harmonic approximation and optimal interior partial regularity for nonlinear elliptic systems under the controllable growth condition

In this paper, we consider the nonlinear elliptic systems under controllable growth condition. We use a new method introduced by Duzaar and Grotowski, for proving partial regularity for weak solutions, based on a generalization of the technique of harmonic approximation. We extend previous partial regularity results under the natural growth condition to the case of the controllable growth condition, and directly establishing the optimal Hölder exponent for the derivative of a weak solution.     

Partial regularity for nonlinear elliptic systems with continuous growth exponent

For weak solutions of nonlinear elliptic systems of the type ${- {\rm div}a(x, u(x), Du(x)) = 0,}$ with nonstandard p(x) growth, we show interior partial Hölder continuity for any Hölder exponent ${\alpha \in (0,1)}$ , provided that the exponent function is ‘logarithmic Hölder continuous’. The result also covers the up to now open partial regularity for systems with constant growth with exponent p less than two in the case of merely continuous dependence on the spacial variable x.     

OnBMO regularity for linear elliptic systems

Summary We prove a refinement of Campanato's result on local and global (under Dirichlet boundary conditions) BMO regularity for the gradient of solutions of linear elliptic systems of second order in divergence form: we just need that the coefficients are «small multipliers of BMO()», a class neither containing, nor contained in . We also prove local and global L^p regularity: this result neither implies, nor follows by the classical one by Agmon, Douglis and Nirenberg.Work partially supported by M.P.I.Project 40% «Equazioni di evoluzione e applicazioni fisico-matematiche».     

Optimal partial regularity of second order parabolic systems under controllable growth condition

We consider the regularity for weak solutions of second order nonlinear parabolic systems under controllable growth condition, and obtain a general criterion for a weak solution to be regular in the neighborhood of a given point. In particular, we get the optimal regularity by the method of A-caloric approximation introduced by Duzaar and Mingione.     

Boundary regularity for viscosity solutions to degenerate elliptic PDEs

Sufficient conditions are given for the solutions to the (fully nonlinear, degenerate) elliptic equation F(x,u,Du,D²u)=0 in Ω to satisfy |u(x)−u(y)|?Cα|x−y| for some α∈(0,1) when x∈Ω and y∈∂Ω.     

The method of <Emphasis Type="Italic">A</Emphasis>-harmonic approximation and boundary regularity for nonlinear elliptic systems under the natural growth condition

We consider the questions of boundary regularity for weak solutions of second-order nonlinear elliptic systems under the natural growth condition. We obtain a general criterion for a weak solution to be regular in the neighborhood of a given boundary point. The proof yields directly the optimal regularity for the solution in this neighborhood. This result is new for the situation under the natural growth conditions.     

Partial regularity results for evolutional p-Laplacian systems with natural growth

 We study a regularity for evolutional p-Laplacian systems with natural growth on the gradient. It is shown that weak solutions of small image and their gradients are partial H?lder continuous and the size of the exceptional set for regularity is estimated in terms of Hausdorff measure. The main ingredient is to improve the Gehring inequality, which implies the higher integrability of the gradient and was first developed by Kinnunen and Lewis, so as to be well-worked in our perturbation estimate. We also use a refinement of the perturbation argument and make a device for H?lder estimates of the gradient. Received: 4 March 2002 Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): Primary 35D10, 35B65, 35K65     

Fine regularity for elliptic systems with discontinuous ingredients

We propose results on interior Morrey, BMO and H?lder regularity for the strong solutions to linear elliptic systems of order 2b with discontinuous coefficients and right-hand sides belonging to the Morrey space L^p,λ. Received: 20 October 2004     

On coercivity and regularity for linear elliptic systems

We introduce a nonlinear method to study a ??universal?? strong coercivity problem for monotone linear elliptic systems by compositions of finitely many constant coefficient tensors satisfying the Legendre?CHadamard strong ellipticity condition. We give conditions and counterexamples for universal coercivity. In the case of non-coercive systems we give examples to show that the corresponding variational integral may have infinitely many nowhere C ¹ minimizers on their supports. For some universally coercive systems we also present examples with affine boundary values which have nowhere C ¹ solutions.     

Regularity for nonlinear elliptic systems with dini coefficients under natural growth condition for the case: 1 < m < 2

In this article, we consider interior regularity for weak solutions to nonlinear elliptic systems of divergence type with Dini continuous coefficients under natural growth condition for the case 1 < m < 2. All estimates in the case of m ≥ 2 is no longer suitable, and we can't obtain the Caccioppoli's second inequality by using these techniques developed in the case of m ≥ 2. But the Caccioppoli's second inequality is the key to use A-harmonic approximation method. Thus, we adopt another technique introduced by Acerbi and Fcsco to overcome the difficulty and we also overcome those difficulties due to Dini condition. And then we apply the A-harmonic approximation method to prove partial regularity of weak solutions.     

Regularity for a class of degenerate elliptic equations with discontinuous coefficients under natural growth

In this paper we are concerned with the regularity in Morrey spaces for weak solutions of a class of degenerate elliptic equations when the coefficient matrices satisfy certain VMO conditions in x uniformly with respect to u and the lower order terms satisfy a natural growth condition. Interior Hölder continuity of weak solutions is also derived with the improvement of the given data regularities.     

Almost-everywhere regularity results for solutions of non linear elliptic systems

We prove almost-everywhere regularity of weak solutions of non linear elliptic systems of arbitrary order.Dedicated to Hans Lewy and Charles B. Morrey, Jr.     

Necessity of a Wiener type condition for boundary regularity of quasiminimizers and nonlinear elliptic equations

We use variational methods to obtain a pointwise estimate near a boundary point for quasisubminimizers of the p-energy integral and other integral functionals in doubling metric measure spaces admitting a p-Poincaré inequality. It implies a Wiener type condition necessary for boundary regularity for p-harmonic functions on metric spaces, as well as for (quasi)minimizers of various integral functionals and solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations on R ⁿ .     

Partial regularity for quasilinear nonuniformly elliptic systems of the general type

We establish the partial C^1,α-regularity of weak solutions of nonhomogeneous nonuniformly elliptic systems of the type $$ - \frac{\partial }{{\partial x_\alpha }}A_\alpha ^i (x,u,u_x ) = B^i (x,u,u_x ),{\text{ }}i = 1,...,n$$ . The system of Euler equations of the variational problem of finding a minimum of the integral $\int\limits_\Omega {\mathcal{F}(u_x )dx} $ with an integrand of the type $$\mathcal{F}(p) = a|p|^2 + b|p|^m + \sqrt {1 + \det ^2 p,} {\text{ }}a > 0,{\text{ }}b > 0$$ , for b large enough, is a typical example of systems under consideration. Bibliography: 11 titles.