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We establish the higher differentiability for the minimizers of the following non-autonomous integral functionals \begin{equation*} \mathcal{F}(u,\Omega):= \, \int_\Omega \sum_{i=1}^{n} \, a_i(x) \lvert u_{x_i} \rvert^{p_i} dx,…

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We prove a sharp higher differentiability result for local minimizers of functionals of the form $$\mathcal{F}\left(w,\Omega\right)=\int_{\Omega}\left[ F\left(x,Dw(x)\right)-f(x)\cdot w(x)\right]dx$$ with non-autonomous integrand $F(x,\xi)$…

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We consider a class of integral functionals with convex integrand with respect to the gradient variable, assuming that the function that measures the oscillation of the integrand with respect to the x variable belongs to a suitable Sobolev…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-10 Andrea Gentile

We prove that minimizers of variational problems on open sets $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ $$ \mbox{minimize}\quad \mathcal E(v)=\int_\Omega f(v(x))\mathrm{d} x\quad\text{for } \mathscr{A} v=0, $$ are partially continuous provided that the…

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In this paper we consider a class of obstacle problems of the type %\begin{equation*} %\int_{\Omega}\left<A(x, Du), D(\varphi-u)\right> \, \dx\ge0\qquad\forall %\varphi\in W^{1,q}(\Omega) \quad {\mathrm{s.t.}} \quad \varphi \ge \psi…

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We study the regularity of local minimisers of a prototypical free-discontinuity problem involving both a manifold-valued constraint on the maps (which are defined on a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \R^2$) and a variable-exponent growth in…

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In this work, we establish regularity results for minimizers of the energy functional associated with the thin obstacle problem in Orlicz spaces. More precisely, we prove the Lipschitz continuity and the H\"older continuity of the gradient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Junior da Silva Bessa , Paulo Henryque da Costa Silva , Alan Pio Sousa

We establish maximal local regularity results of weak solutions or local minimizers of \[ \operatorname{div} A(x, Du)=0 \quad\text{and}\quad \min_u \int_\Omega F(x,Du)\,dx, \] providing new ellipticity and continuity assumptions on $A$ or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Peter Hästö , Jihoon Ok

We establish the higher differentiability of solutions to a class of obstacle problems for integral functionals where the convex integrand f satisfies p-growth conditions with respect to the gradient variable. We derive that the higher…

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We consider functionals of the form $$\mathcal{F}(u):=\int_\Omega\!F(x,u,\nabla u)\,\mathrm{d} x,$$ where $\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}^n$ is open and bounded. The integrand $F\colon\Omega\times\mathbb{R}^N\times\mathbb{R}^{N\times…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Judith Campos Cordero

We study existence, structure, uniqueness and regularity of solutions of the obstacle problem \begin{equation*} \inf_{u\in BV_f(\Omega)}\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}\phi(x,Du), \end{equation*} where $BV_f(\Omega)=\{u\in BV(\Omega): u\geq \psi \text{…

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We prove that minimizers of variational integrals $$ \mathcal E(v)=\int_\Omega f(v)\quad\text{for }v\in\mathcal M(\Omega)\text{ such that } \mathscr{A} v=0, $$ are partially continuous provided that the integrands $f$ are strongly…

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In this paper we prove local gradient estimates and higher differentiability result for the solutions of variational obstacle inequalities \int_\Omega\big<\mathcal{A}(x,u,Du),D(\phi-u)\big>dx\geq \int_\Omega\mathcal{B}(x,u,Du)(\phi-u)dx.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Debraj Kar

We study local regularity properties of local minimizer of scalar integral functionals with controlled $(p,q)$-growth in the two-dimensional plane. We establish Lipschitz continuity for local minimizer under the condition $1<p\leq q<\infty$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Mathias Schäffner

We consider minimizers of \[ F(\lambda_1(\Omega),\ldots,\lambda_N(\Omega)) + |\Omega|, \] where $F$ is a function strictly increasing in each parameter, and $\lambda_k(\Omega)$ is the $k$-th Dirichlet eigenvalue of $\Omega$. Our main result…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-19 Dennis Kriventsov , Fanghua Lin

We study the regularity properties of H\"older continuous minimizers to non-autonomous functionals satisfying $(p,q)$-growth conditions, under Besov assumptions on the coefficients. In particular, we are able to prove higher integrability…

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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Pierre Bousquet , Lorenzo Brasco

The optimal local Lipschitz regularity for scalar almost-minimizers of Alt-Caffarelli-type functionals $$ \mathcal{F}({v}; \Omega) = \int_\Omega \varphi(x,\left|\nabla v(x) \right|)+ \lambda \chi_{\{{v} >0\}} (x) \, \mathrm{d}x\,, $$ with…

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