Regularity for minimizing sequences of some variational integrals (Q6100639)

This paper deals with regularity properties for minimizing sequences of integral functionals of the type \[ J(u)=\int_{\Omega}f(x, Du(x))dx, \tag{1} \] where \(\Omega\) is an open bounded subset of \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\), \(u:\Omega\longrightarrow\mathbb{R}^{3}\) is a vector-valued map, and \(Du\) is the \(3\times 3\) Jacobian matrix of its partial derivatives. The authors consider two special classes of (1). For the first class, they assume that there exist Carathéodory functions \(F,G:\Omega\times\mathbb{R}^{3}\longrightarrow\mathbb{R}\) and \(H:\Omega\times\mathbb{R}\longrightarrow\mathbb{R}\) such that \(f(x,\xi)=F(x,\xi)+G(x,adj_{2}\xi)+H(x,det\xi)\). In this case, they give some regularity properties for minimizing sequences of the variational integral (1). For the second class, they assume that there exist Carathéodory functions \(F^{\alpha}:\Omega\times\mathbb{R}^{3\times 3}\longrightarrow\mathbb{R}\), (\(\alpha=1,2,3\)), \(G:\Omega\times\mathbb{R}^{3}\longrightarrow\mathbb{R}\) and \(H:\Omega\times\mathbb{R}\longrightarrow\mathbb{R}\) such that \(f(x,\xi)=\sum^{3}_{\alpha=1}F^{\alpha}(x,\xi^{\alpha})+G(x,adj_{2}\xi)+H(x,det\xi)\). For this class, they give uniform higher integrability for the gradients of minimizing sequences of the variational integral (1).