Higher differentiability and existence for a class of problems under \(p, q\) subquadratic growth (Q6111617)

Summary: We study the higher differentiability for nonlinear elliptic equation in divergence form \(\mathcal{A}(x,Du)=b(x)\). The result covers the cases in which \(\mathcal{A}(x, \xi)\) satisfies \(p,q\) growth, with \(1<p<2\) in \(\xi\), and a Sobolev dependence of \(\mathcal{A}(x, \xi)\) with respect to \(x\). By means of an a-priori estimate, we ensure the existence of the solution \(u\in W^{2,p}_{\mathrm{loc}}(\Omega)\) of the boundary value problem.