Quasimonotonicity,regularity and duality for nonlinear systems of partial differential equations

Summary We prove partial regularity for the vector-valued differential forms solving the system (A(x, ))=0, d=0, and for the gradient of the vector-valued functions solving the system div A(x, Du)=B(x, u, Du). Here the mapping A, with A(x, w) (1+ + ¦¦²)^{(p – 2)/2} (p2), satisfies a quasimonotonicity condition which, when applied to the gradient A(x, )=Df(x, ) of a real-valued functionf, is analogous to but stronger than quasiconvexity for f. The case 12 by a duality technique.