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Gradient regularity for a class of elliptic obstacle problems

Analysis of PDEs 2024-08-20 v1

Abstract

We prove some regularity results for a priori bounded local minimizers of non-autonomous integral functionals of the form F(v,Ω)=ΩF(x,Dv)dx,\mathcal{F}(v,\Omega)=\int_\Omega F(x,Dv)dx, under the constraint vψv \ge \psi a.e. in Ω\Omega, where ψ\psi is a fixed obstacle function. Assuming that the coefficients of the partial map xDξF(x,ξ)x \mapsto D_\xi F(x,\xi) satisfy a suitable Sobolev regularity, we are able to obtain higher differentiability and Lipschitz continuity results for the local minimizers.

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@article{arxiv.2408.09510,
  title  = {Gradient regularity for a class of elliptic obstacle problems},
  author = {Raffaella Giova and Antonio Giuseppe Grimaldi and Andrea Torricelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.09510},
  year   = {2024}
}
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