Regularity versus singularity for elliptic problems in two dimensions

DOI10.1515/ACV-2012-0004MaRDI QIDQ2861482zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lisa Beck

Publication date 8 November 2013

Published in Advances in Calculus of Variations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5876, https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/files/39495/%5BAdvances%20in%20Calculus%20of%20Variations%5D%20Regularity%20versus%20singularity%20for%20elliptic%20problems%20in%20two%20dimensions.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

counterexample in two dimensionsquasi-linear elliptic systemsregularity of weak solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) Second-order elliptic systems (35J47)

Abstract: In two dimensions every weak solution to a nonlinear elliptic system $mdiva(x,u,Du)=0$ has H"older continuous first derivatives provided that standard continuity, ellipticity and growth assumptions hold with a growth exponent $pgeq2$. We give an example showing that this result cannot be extended to the subquadratic case, i.e. that weak solutions are not necessarily continuous if $1<p<2$. Furthermore, we discuss related results for variational integrals.

Review text

For a second-order elliptic system in divergence form NEWLINE\[NEWLINE-\mathrm{div }a(\cdot,u,Du)=b(\cdot,u,Du) \;\text{ in }\Omega,NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain in \(\mathbb R^2\) and the coefficients \(a:\Omega \times \mathbb R^N\times \mathbb R^{2N}\rightarrow \mathbb R^{2N}\) satisfy standard growth, ellipticity and regularity assumptions, the author, using similar arguments as in [\textit{J. Kristensen} and \textit{G. Mingione}, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 180, No. 3, 331--398 (2006; Zbl 1116.49010)], proves that a \(W^{1,p}(\Omega,\mathbb R^N)\) \((p>1)\) solution \(u\) belongs to \(C^{1,\alpha}_{\mathrm{loc}}(\Omega)\) with optimal exponent \(\alpha\), provided that one of following conditions holds: 1) the a priori integrability exponent \(p\) is greater than an exponent \(p_1\in (1,2)\) which depends on the constants involved in the ellipticity, regularity and growth conditions on the coefficients; 2) the coefficients are independent of \(u\); 3) the solution \(u\) is locally continuous. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe main objective of this paper is then giving an answer to the following problem: Keeping the same assumptions on the coefficients as above, is \(Du\) locally Hölder continuous for every \(W^{1,p}(\Omega,\mathbb R^N)\)-solution \(u\) of the system? The author gives a negative answer to this problem by exhibiting a non-smooth function defined in the unit ball of \(\mathbb R^2\) which is a solution of the above system for suitable coefficients satisfying the standard growth, ellipticity and regularity conditions.

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