Recent developments in problems with nonstandard growth and nonuniform ellipticity (Q2033279)

In this paper, an overview is given on recent trends and advances in variational problems exhibiting nonstandard growth conditions and/or nonuniform ellipticity. The authors consider functionals that are linked to nonuniformly elliptic problems. They emerge in several cases of applications, as, for instance, in the homogenization of strongly anisotropic materials, in non-Newtonian fluid mechanics. In the paper, some recent directions are described concerning \begin{itemize} \item Nonuniformly elliptic problems, with special emphasis on new gap bounds allowing to prove the regularity of minima. \item New conditions on coefficients guaranteeing regularity in the case of nonautonomous integrals. \item Relations between regularity conditions and fundamental properties of the function spaces that are associated with the operators considered. \item Relations between regularity of minima, relaxed functionals, and the Lavrentiev phenomenon. \item Borderline conditions on data guaranteeing regularity in nonuniformly elliptic problems. \end{itemize}