Gradient regularity for elliptic equations in the Heisenberg group (Q2389238)

The authors give dimension-free regularity conditions for a class of possibly degenerate sub-elliptic equations in the Heisenberg group exhibiting super-quadratic growth in the horizontal gradient; this solves an issue raised in [\textit{J. J. Manfredi} and \textit{G. Mingione}, Math. Ann. 339, No.~3, 485--544 (2007; Zbl 1128.35034)], where only dimension dependent bounds for the growth exponent are given. They also obtain explicit a priori local regularity estimates, and cover the case of the horizontal \(p\)-Laplacean operator, extending some regularity proven in [\textit{A. Domokos} and \textit{G. J. J. Manfredi}, Proceedings of the 3rd prairie analysis seminar, Manhattan, 2003. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (AMS). Contemporary Mathematics 370, 17--23 (2005; Zbl 1073.22004)]. In turn, using some recent techniques of \textit{L. A. Caffarelli} and \textit{G. I. Peral} [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 51, No.~1, 1--21 (1998; Zbl 0906.35030)], the a priori estimates found are shown to imply the suitable local Calderón-Zygmund theory for the related class of non-homogeneous, possibly degenerate equations involving discontinuous coefficients. These last results extend to the subelliptic setting a few classical nonlinear Euclidean results [\textit{T. Iwaniec}, Stud. Math. 75, 293--312 (1983; Zbl 0552.35034), \textit{E. DiBenedetto} and \textit{G. J. J. Manfredi}, Am. J. Math. 115, No.~5, 1107--1134 (1993; Zbl 0805.35037)], and to the nonlinear case estimates of the same nature that were available in the subelliptic setting only for solutions to linear equations.