Local regularity for strongly degenerate elliptic equations and weighted sum operators. (Q2280477)

The authors give a contribution to the project of showing regularity properties for solutions of degenerate elliptic equations. In order to gain the objective, Di Fazio, Fanciullo and Zamboni use the explicit representation formulas and Poincaré inequality adapted to the geometry induced by the system \(X\) a system of first order locally Lipschitz vector fields in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) of the given vector fields. As a direct consequence, they get continuity and Hölder continuity of the weak solutions of the equations. Let us point out that the assumptions on the lower order terms are very sharp in the sense that they are also necessary in some particular cases.