Removable singularities for nonlinear elliptic equations (Q1382793)

The authors study very general types of nonlinear elliptic equations containing gradient terms. They consider solutions which are defined in \(D\setminus K\), where \(D\) is a bounded domain in \({\mathbb R}^N\) and \(K\) is a set of zero capacity. They show that if the solution is smooth it can be continued as a smooth solution in the whole domain \(D\). The proof is based on the appropriate choice of test functions and very clever use of classical Sobolev inequalities and maximum principle. They also show by means of counter examples that the assumptions are in a certain sense optimal.