Regularity for non-autonomous functionals with almost linear growth (Q636837)

Let \(u\) be a vector-valued mapping and \(\Omega\) a bounded open set in \({\mathbb R}^n\) (\(n\geq 2\)). It is considered a variational functional of the form \[ F(u,\Omega)=\int_\Omega f(x,Du)dx. \] Here the integrand \(f(x,\xi)\) is strictly convex with respect to the variables \(\xi\in {\mathbb R}^{n\times N}\) and satisfies the assumption \(c_0A(|\xi|)-c_1\leq f(x,\xi)\leq c_2A(|\xi|)-c_3\), with some positive constants \(c_i\) and \(A(t)=t\log(t+1)\). The authors prove \(C^{1,\gamma}\)-regularity for minimizers \(u\) under additional assumptions on the derivatives \(f_{\xi}\), \(f_{\xi\xi}\) and \(\partial_{x_s}\partial_{\xi}f\), (\(s=1,..,n\)).