Lipschitz regularity results for a class of obstacle problems with nearly linear growth (Q2210161)

This paper deals with the regularity of variational obstacle problems with nearly linear growth. The authors prove the Lipschitz continuity of solutions for a large class of problems and then the Lavrentiev phenomenon does not occur. The main tool used here is a new higher differentiability result which reveals to be crucial because it allows to transform the constrained problem in an unconstrained one, by means a linearization procedure. It is interesting to note that the same Sobolev regularity both for the gradient of the obstacle and for the coefficients is assumed.