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Higher fractional differentiability for solutions to a class of obstacle problems with non-standard growth conditions

Analysis of PDEs 2021-09-06 v1

Abstract

We here establish the higher fractional differentiability for solutions to a class of obstacle problems with non-standard growth conditions. We deal with the case in which the solutions to the obstacle problems satisfy a variational inequality of the form \begin{equation*} \displaystyle\int_{\Omega} \langle \mathcal{A}(x,Du) ,D(\varphi-u) \rangle dx \geq 0 \qquad \forall \varphi \in \mathcal{K}_\psi(\Omega), \end{equation*} where Ω\Omega is a bounded open subset of Rn\mathbb{R}^n, ψW1,p(Ω)\psi \in W^{1,p}(\Omega) is a fixed function called \textit{obstacle} and Kψ(Ω)={wW1,p(Ω):wψ a.e. in Ω}\mathcal{K}_{\psi}(\Omega)= \{ w \in W^{1,p}(\Omega) : w \geq \psi \ \text{a.e. in} \ \Omega \} is the class of admissible functions. Assuming that the gradient of the obstacle belongs to some suitable Besov space, we are able to prove that some fractional differentiability property transfers to the gradient of the solution.

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@article{arxiv.2109.01584,
  title  = {Higher fractional differentiability for solutions to a class of obstacle problems with non-standard growth conditions},
  author = {Antonio Giuseppe Grimaldi and Erica Ipocoana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.01584},
  year   = {2021}
}