On the critical point regularity for degenerate diffusive equations (Q2127905)

This article investigates regularity estimates at interior critical points of solutions to degenerate elliptic equations in a heterogeneous medium of type \(-\mathrm{div}(a(x, Du))=f(x,u)\) in \(B_1\subset \mathbb{R}^d\), where \(a:B_1\times \mathbb{R}^d\to \mathbb{R}^d\) satisfies some standard growth and ellipticity assumptions that include the \(p\)-Laplace operator, \(p\geq 2\). It is shown that in case of source terms bounded away from zero, the solution can never be smoother than \(C^{p'}\) at critical points. At zero source critical points, the author establishes sharp higher order regularity estimates.