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We study robust regularity estimates for local minimizers of nonlocal functionals with non-standard growth of $(p,q)$-type and for weak solutions to a related class of nonlocal equations. The main results of this paper are local boundedness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Jamil Chaker , Minhyun Kim , Marvin Weidner

In this paper, we investigate the borderline regularity of local minimizers of energy functionals under minimal assumptions on the potential term $\sigma$. When $\sigma$ is merely bounded and measurable, we show that sign-changing…

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Let $(g^{\alpha\beta}(x))$ and $(h_{ij}(u))$ be uniformly elliptic symmetric matrices, and assume that $h_{ij}(u)$ and $p(x) \, (\, \geq 2)$ are sufficiently smooth. We prove partial regularity of minimizers for the functional [ {\mathcal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-19 Maria Alessandra Ragusa , Atsushi Tachikawa , Hiroshi Takabayashi

We study a generalization of the manifold-valued Rudin-Osher-Fatemi (ROF) model, which involves an initial datum $f$ mapping from a curved compact surface with smooth boundary to a complete, connected and smooth $n$-dimensional Riemannian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Salvador Moll , Vicent Pallardó-Julià

We prove local $C^{0,\alpha}$- and $C^{1,\alpha}$-regularity for the local solution to an obstacle problem with non-standard growth. These results cover as special cases standard, variable exponent, double phase and Orlicz growth.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Arttu Karppinen , Mikyoung Lee

In this paper we study the local regularity of almost minimizers of the functional \begin{equation*} J(u)=\int_\Omega |\nabla u(x)|^2 +q^2_+(x)\chi_{\{u>0\}}(x) +q^2_-(x)\chi_{\{u<0\}}(x) \end{equation*} where $q_\pm \in L^\infty(\Omega)$.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-13 Guy David , Tatiana Toro

We consider fully nonlinear obstacle-type problems of the form \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} F(D^{2}u,x)=f(x) & \text{a.e. in}B_{1}\cap\Omega,|D^{2}u|\le K & \text{a.e. in}B_{1}\backslash\Omega, \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $\Omega$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-07 Emanuel Indrei , Andreas Minne

Given a Lipschitz domain $\Omega $ in ${\mathbb R} ^N $ and a nonnegative potential $V$ in $\Omega $ such that $V(x)\, d(x,\partial \Omega)^2$ is bounded in $\Omega $ we study the fine regularity of boundary points with respect to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-09 Ancona Alano

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

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Dennis Kriventsov , Fanghua Lin

We establish the first partial regularity result for local minima of strongly $\mathscr{A}$-quasiconvex integrals in the case where the differential operator $\mathscr{A}$ possesses an elliptic potential $\mathbb{A}$. As the main…

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In this paper we are interested in integro-differential elliptic and parabolic equations involving nonlocal operators with order less than one, and a gradient term whose coercivity growth makes it the leading term in the equation. We obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Guy Barles , Erwin Topp

We prove the existence and $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity of solutions to nonlocal fully nonlinear elliptic double obstacle problems. We also obtain boundary regularity for these problems. The obstacles are assumed to be Lipschitz…

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We prove partial regularity for minimizers of quasiconvex functionals of the type $\int_\Omega f(x,Du) dx$ with $p(x)$ growth with respect to the second variable. The proof is direct and uses a method of $A$-harmonic approximation.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-08 J. Habermann , A. Zatorska-Goldstein

We study thin obstacle problems involving the energy functional with $p(x)$-growth. We prove higher integrability and H\"{o}lder regularity for the gradient of minimizers of the thin obstacle problems under the assumption that the variable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Sun-sig Byun , Ki-ahm Lee , Jehan Oh , Jinwan Park

We consider the class of semi-stable solutions to semilinear equations $-\Delta u=f(u)$ in a bounded smooth domain $\Omega$ of $R^n$ (with $\Omega$ convex in some results). This class includes all local minimizers, minimal, and extremal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-28 Xavier Cabre

In this article we study solutions to the (interior) thin obstacle problem under low regularity assumptions on the coefficients, the obstacle and the underlying manifold. Combining the linearization method of Andersson \cite{An16} and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-26 Angkana Rüland , Wenhui Shi

We establish the local $C^{1, \alpha}$ regularity of minimizers for functionals of the form $$w\to \int_{\Omega}(|\nabla w|^p-fw) dx + \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}\int_{\mathbb{R}^n} \frac{|w(x)-w(y)|^q}{|x-y|^{n+sq}}dx\, dy,$$ where $s \in (0, 1)$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Anup Biswas , Erwin Topp

We prove the local Lipschitz continuity and the higher differentiability of local minimizers of integral functionals with non autonomous integrand which is degenerate convex with respect to the gradient variable. The main novelty here is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-07 Albert Clop , Raffaella Giova , Farhad Hatami , Antonia Passarelli di Napoli

We establish local regularity results for minimizers of autonomous vectorial integrals of Calculus of Variations, assuming $\psi$-growth conditions and imposing $\varphi$-quasiconvexity only in an asymptotic sense, both in the sub-quadratic…

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