On the integrability of the Jacobian under minimal hypotheses (Q1200254)

Let \(f=(f^ 1,f^ 2,\dots,f^ n):\Omega\to R^ n\), where \(\Omega\) is a region in \(R^ n\) and \(J(x,f)=\text{det} Df(x)\) the Jacobian of \(f\). The authors prove a number of results on integrability of \(J(x,f)\) under minimal assumptions on \(f\). These results start from Miller's observation that the assumption that \(J(x,f)\) doesn't change sign, implies higher integrability of \(J(x,f)\) in comparison with that of \(| Df(x)|^ n\). This observation is essentially developed and strengthened. In particular, it is shown that if \(J(x,f)\geq 0\) is a mapping of the Sobolev-Orlicz class \(D^ n\log^{-1}D\), then \[ \int_ EJ(x,f)dx\leq c(n,D)\int_ \Omega{| Df(x)|^ ndx\over\bigl|\log\bigl(e+{(Df(x))\over| Df|_ \Omega}\bigr)\bigr|} \] for each compact subset \(E\subset\Omega\), \(| Df|_ \Omega\) being the integral mean of \(| Df|\) over \(\Omega\).