Removable sets for Hölder continuous \(p(x)\)-harmonic functions (Q2883131)

This paper is concerned with removability properties for \(p(x)\)-harmonic functions. More precisely, the author establishes the following result: Let \(\Omega\subset \mathbb {R}^n\), \(n\geq 2\), be an open and bounded domain, \(E\subset \Omega\) be a closed set and let \(u\in W^{1,p(x)}(\Omega)\) be a continuous function in \(\Omega\), \(p(x)\)-harmonic in \(\Omega\setminus E\) and such that \(|u(x)-u(y)|\leq L|x-y|^\alpha\) for all \(x\in E\) and all \(y\in \Omega\), where \(\alpha\in (0,1)\) and \(L>0\). If for any compact subset \(K\) of \(E\) the \((n-p_K+\alpha(p_K-1))\)-Hausdorff measure of \(K\) is zero, where \(p_K=\max_{x\in K}p(x)\), then \(u\) is \(p(x)\)-harmonic.