Sobolev and Lipschitz regularity for local minimizers of widely degenerate anisotropic functionals

DOI10.1016/J.NA.2016.06.006MaRDI QIDQ515925zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. Brasco, Chiara Leone, G. Pisante, Anna Verde

Publication date 17 March 2017

Published in Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods \& Applications. Series A: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04189

zbMATH Keywords

degenerate elliptic problems minimizers of funtionals Sobolev regularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Optimality conditions for problems involving partial differential equations (49K20)

Abstract: We prove higher differentiability of bounded local minimizers to some widely degenerate functionals, verifying superquadratic anisotropic growth conditions. In the two dimensional case, we prove that local minimizers to a model functional are locally Lipschitz continuous functions, without any restriction on the anisotropy.

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The main subject studied in the paper is the regularity of local minimizers of functionals of the form \[ \mathfrak{F}(u;\Omega)=\sum_{i=1}^N\int_{\Omega}g_i(u_{x_i})dx+\int_{\Omega}fudx, \] where \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N\) is an open set, \(N\geq2\), \(g_1,\ldots,g_N:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^+\) are \(C^{1,1}\) convex functions such that \[ C^{-1}(|s|-\delta_i)_+^{p_i-2}\leq g_i^{\prime\prime}(s)\leq C(|s|^{p_i-2}+1)\quad\text{a.e. in } \mathbb{R}, \] for \(i=1,\ldots,N\) and suitable constants \(p_i\geq 2\), \(C>0\) and \(\delta_i\geq0\). Consider the particular case when \(p_1=\cdots=p_l=p\) as well as \(\delta_1=\cdots=\delta_l\) for \(l\in\{1,\ldots,N-1\}\). Let the same property hold for the remaining \(N-l\) dimensions, i.e., \(p_{l+1}=\cdots=p_N=q\) and \(\delta_{l+1}=\cdots=\delta_{N}\). Denote \(v_i=V_i(u_{x_i})\), where \(V_i(x)=\int_0^x\sqrt{g_i^{\prime\prime}(s)}ds\) and \[ \mathbf{p}=(\underbrace{p,\ldots,p}_l,\underbrace{q,\ldots,q}_{N-l}). \] The first main result is concerned with the Sobolev regularity for bounded minimizers provided that \(f\in W_{\mathrm{loc}}^{1,\mathbf{p}^\prime}(\Omega)\). More precisely, sufficient conditions are presented for \(p\), \(q\) and \(N\) that guarantee \(v_i\in W_{\mathrm{loc}}^{1,2}(\Omega)\), for any local minimizer \(u\in W_{\mathrm{loc}}^{1,\mathbf{p}}(\Omega)\cap L_{\mathrm{loc}}^{\infty}(\Omega)\) and \(i=1,\ldots,N\) . In addition, local Lipschitz continuity is proved for the model case \(g_i(s)=(|s|-\delta_i)_+^{p_i}/p_i\) and \(N=2\).

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