Lipschitz estimates for systems with ellipticity conditions at infinity (Q325941)

The very interesting paper under review deals with Lipschitz estimates for minimizers of vectorial variational problems satisfying ellipticity conditions at infinity. Precisely, let \(u\in W^{1,1}_{\mathrm{loc}}(\Omega;\mathbb R^N)\) be a local minimizer of the functional \[ \int_\Omega f(x,Du)dx, \] where \(\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n\), \(n\geq 2\), is a bounded open set, \(f:\Omega\times\mathbb R^{Nn}\to[0,\infty)\) and its derivatives \(f_{\xi x}\) and \(f_{\xi\xi}\) are Carathéodory functions in \([t_0,\infty)\), and \[ \lambda |\xi|^{p-2}|\mu|^2\leq \sum_{i,j,\alpha,\beta} f_{\xi_i^\alpha\xi_j^\beta}(x,\xi)\mu_i^\alpha\mu_j^\beta, \] \[ |f_{\xi_i^\alpha\xi_j^\beta}(x,\xi)|\leq \Lambda |\xi|^{q-2}, \] \[ |f_{\xi x } (x,\xi)| \leq h(x) |\xi|^{q-1} \] with \(1<p\leq q,\) \(h\in L^r(\Omega),\) \(r>n\). The authors prove local Lipschitz continuity of \(u\) assuming \[ \dfrac{q}{p}<1+\dfrac{\sigma}{n}\quad\text{where}\quad \dfrac{\sigma}{n}=\dfrac{1}{n}-\dfrac{1}{r}. \] The result is further applied to get local Lipschitz continuity of the weak solutions to nonlinear elliptic systems of the form \[ \sum_{i=1}^n \dfrac{\partial}{\partial x_i} a_i^\alpha (x,Du)=0,\quad \alpha=1,2,\ldots,N. \]