Gradient estimate of a variable power for nonlinear elliptic equations with Orlicz growth (Q780536)

The authors study the regularity of weak solutions of the zero Dirichlet problem for the equation \[ \operatorname{div} A(x, Du) = \operatorname{div} G(x,f)\quad \text{in } \Omega, \] where \(\Omega\) is a bounded Reifenberg domain in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). The operator on the left-hand side is a generalization of the \(p\)-Laplacian to Orlicz settings with the function \(\Phi\). The function \(G(x,\cdot)\) is bounded in terms of the derivative of \(\Phi\). It is proved that if \(\Phi(|f|)^{p(x)} \in L^{t,q}(\Omega)\) for some \(t>1\), \(q \in (0,+\infty]\), and \(p(x)\) is a log-Hölder continuous function, then a weak solution \(u \in W_0^{1,\Phi}(\Omega)\) satisfies \(\Phi(|D u|)^{p(x)} \in L^{t,q}(\Omega)\) with an estimate for the \(L^{t,q}\)-norm of \(\Phi(|D u|)^{p(x)}\) in terms of the \(L^{t,q}\)-norm of \(\Phi(|f|)^{p(x)}\).