Partial regularity for local minimizers of variational integrals with lower-order terms

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Abstract: We consider functionals of the form mathcal{F}(u):=int_Omega!F(x,u, abla u),mathrm{d} x, where OmegasubseteqmathbbRn is open and bounded. The integrand FcolonOmegaimesmathbbRNimesmathbbRNimesnomathbbR is assumed to satisfy the classical assumptions of a power p-growth and the corresponding strong quasiconvexity. In addition, F is H"older continuous with exponent in its first two variables uniformly with respect to the third variable, and bounded below by a quasiconvex function depending only on zinmathbbRNimesn. We establish that strong local minimizers of mathcalF are of class in an open subset Omega0subseteqOmega with mathcalLn(OmegasetminusOmega0)=0. This partial regularity also holds for a certain class of weak local minimizers at which the second variation is strongly positive and satisfying a mathrmBMO-smallness condition. This extends the partial regularity result for local minimizers by Kristensen and Taheri (2003) to the case where the integrand depends also on u. Furthermore, we provide a direct strategy for this result, in contrast to the blow-up argument used for the case of homogeneous integrands.









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