Interpolative gap bounds for nonautonomous integrals

For nonautonomous, nonuniformly elliptic integrals with so-called $(p,q)$-growth conditions, we show a general interpolation property allowing to get basic higher integrability results for H\"older continuous minimizers under improved bounds for the gap $q/p$. For this we introduce a new method, based on approximating the original, local functional, with mixed local/nonlocal ones, and allowing for suitable estimates in fractional Sobolev spaces.