Regularity of solutions of higher order nonlinear elliptic and parabolic equations (Q4378445)

The paper gives a survey of the author's result about Hölder continuity of weak solutions to higher order elliptic or parabolic equations. Since a famous De Giorgi counterexample in 1968 it is well known that weak solutions of a general elliptic equation need not to be continuous nor bounded. The author concentrates in the first part of the paper on a restricted class of higher order elliptic equations \[ \sum_{|\alpha|\leq m}(-1)^{|\alpha|}D^{\alpha}A_{\alpha}(x,u, \dots,D^mu) = 0 \] satisfying a stronger ellipticity condition \[ \sum_{1 \leq |\alpha|\leq m} A_{\alpha}(x,\xi) \xi_{\alpha} \geq C_1 \sum_{|\alpha|=m} |\xi_{\alpha}|^p + C_1 \sum_{|\alpha|=1} |\xi_{\alpha}|^q - C_2 \sum_{|\alpha|\neq 1,m} |\xi_{\alpha}|^{p_{\alpha}}- f(x) \] for \(C_1, C_2\) positive, \(p\geq 2\) and suitable values of exponents \(q, p_{\alpha}\). For this class he obtains interior Hölder continuity, continuity up to the boundary for a domain \(\Omega \) with a sufficiently smooth boundary, sufficient conditions analogous to Wiener criterion of regularity of a boundary point, Harnack inequality and pointwise estimates of higher order capacities. The last part of the paper quotes an author's result about interior and boundary Hölder continuity of solutions to parabolic equations with an elliptic part described above.