Boundary regularity for elliptic systems under a natural growth condition (Q415430)

This paper is concerned with the existence of regular boundary points for the gradient of bounded vector-valued weak solutions of the Dirichlet problem to the second order elliptic system, \(-\)div \( a(\cdot, u, D u)=b(\cdot,u,D u)\), in a bounded domain \(\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n\), \((n=2,3,4)\), of class \(C^{1,\alpha}\), where \(1/2\leq \alpha<1\), with boundary value \(u_0\in C^{1,\alpha}(\bar\Omega;\mathbb{R}^N)\). The coefficients \(a\) are assumed to be Hölder continuous with exponent \(\alpha\) with respect to the first two variables, and of class \(C^1\) in the last variable, and to satisfy quadratic growth and ellipticity conditions. The existence of regular boundary points for \(Du\) is proved if \(b\) is a Carathéodory map that satisfies \(|b(x,v,z)|\leq L+L_2|z|^2\), for all \((x,v,z)\in \Omega\times \mathbb{R}^N\times\mathbb{R}^{nN}\) such that \(|v|\leq M\), where \(L\) is the upper bound of \(D_za\), \(M\) is the \(L^\infty\)-bound of the weak solution \(u\), \(L_2\) is such that \(2L_2M<\nu\), with \(\nu\) being the ellipticity constant. The strategy of the proof relies on the accomplishment of fractional Sobolev estimates for tangential and full derivatives of \(u\), and an interpolation technique.