Höhere Integrierbarkeit und Regularität für eine Klasse freier Randwertprobleme. (Higher integrability and regularity for a class of free boundary value problems) (Q1107088)

For B \(+=\{x\in {\mathbb{R}}^ n:\) \(| x| \leq 1\), x \(n\geq 0\}\) and \(2\leq p\leq n\) the author considers minima u of the functional \(\int_{B\quad +}| Dv|\) p dx solving a free boundary problem. In general such functions u need not be continuous. As a first step towards a regularity theory the author shows higher integrability of Du up to the free boundary, provided that for \(p<n\) a geometric condition on the image of u is satisfied. In case \(p=n\) by Sobolev's inequality this result implies Hölder- continuity of u.