Gradient regularity for widely degenerate elliptic partial differential equations

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contents In this paper, we investigate the regularity of weak solutions $u\colonΩ\to\mathbb{R}$ to elliptic equations of the type \begin{equation*} \mathrm{div}\, \nabla \mathcal{F}(x,Du) = f\qquad\text{in $Ω$}, \end{equation*} whose ellipticity degenerates in a fixed bounded and convex set $E\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ with $0\in \mathrm{Int}\, E$. Here, $Ω\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ denotes a bounded domain, and $\mathcal{F} \colon Ω\times\mathbb{R}^n \to\mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}$ is a function with the properties: for any $x\inΩ$, the mapping $ξ\mapsto \mathcal{F}(x,ξ)$ is regular outside $E$ and vanishes entirely within this set. Additionally, we assume $f\in L^{n+σ}(Ω)$ for some $σ> 0$, representing an arbitrary datum. Our main result establishes the regularity \begin{equation*} \mathcal{K}(Du)\in C^0(Ω) \end{equation*} for any continuous function $\mathcal{K}\in C^0(\mathbb{R}^n)$ vanishing on $E$.
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spellingShingle Gradient regularity for widely degenerate elliptic partial differential equations
Strunk, Michael
Analysis of PDEs
In this paper, we investigate the regularity of weak solutions $u\colonΩ\to\mathbb{R}$ to elliptic equations of the type \begin{equation*} \mathrm{div}\, \nabla \mathcal{F}(x,Du) = f\qquad\text{in $Ω$}, \end{equation*} whose ellipticity degenerates in a fixed bounded and convex set $E\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ with $0\in \mathrm{Int}\, E$. Here, $Ω\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ denotes a bounded domain, and $\mathcal{F} \colon Ω\times\mathbb{R}^n \to\mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}$ is a function with the properties: for any $x\inΩ$, the mapping $ξ\mapsto \mathcal{F}(x,ξ)$ is regular outside $E$ and vanishes entirely within this set. Additionally, we assume $f\in L^{n+σ}(Ω)$ for some $σ> 0$, representing an arbitrary datum. Our main result establishes the regularity \begin{equation*} \mathcal{K}(Du)\in C^0(Ω) \end{equation*} for any continuous function $\mathcal{K}\in C^0(\mathbb{R}^n)$ vanishing on $E$.
title Gradient regularity for widely degenerate elliptic partial differential equations
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11708