Regularity of minimizing sequences for functionals of the calculus of variations via the Ekeland principle (Q1854062)

The authors consider the functional \[ J(u) = \int _{\Omega } f(x,u,\nabla u) dx \] in the Sobolev space \(W^{1,p}_0(\Omega)\), where \(\Omega \) is an open, bounded set in \(\mathbb{R}^N\), and \(N \geq 2\). They discuss the case when a minimum \(u\) satisfies a certain regularity hypothesis. They show that if \(\bar {u}_n\) is a minimizing sequence converging to \(u\), then there is another minimizing sequence \(u_n\), close to \(\bar {u}_n\) which is bounded in the space to which \(u\) belongs.