Optimal regularity for A-harmonic type equations under the natural growth

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September 2011, 16(2): 669-685. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2011.16.669

Optimal regularity for $A$-harmonic type equations under the natural growth

Shenzhou Zheng ^1, , Xueliang Zheng ^2, and Zhaosheng Feng ^3,

1.	Department of Mathematics, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044
2.	Department of Mathematics, Taizhou University, Linhai, Zhejiang 317000, China
3.	Department of Mathematics, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX 78539

Received January 2010 Revised October 2010 Published June 2011

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In this paper we are concerned with a class of nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations under the natural growth. We show that each bounded weak solution of $A$-harmonic type equations under the natural growth belongs to local Hölder continuity based on a density lemma and the Moser-Nash's argument. Then we show that its weak solution is of optimal regularity with the Hölder exponent for any $\gamma$: $0\le \gamma<\kappa$, where $\kappa$ is the same as the Hölder's index for homogeneous $A$-harmonic equations.

Keywords: degenerate elliptic equation, weak solution, Interior Hölder continuity, Moser-Nash's argument, Hölder's index., A-harmonic equation.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J60; Secondary: 35B45, 35D3.

Citation: Shenzhou Zheng, Xueliang Zheng, Zhaosheng Feng. Optimal regularity for $A$-harmonic type equations under the natural growth. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2011, 16 (2) : 669-685. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2011.16.669

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[3]	E. Dibenedetto, $C$^$1+\alpha$ Local regularity of weak solutions of degenerate elliptic equations, Nonlinear Anal., 7 (1983), 827-850. doi: 10.1016/0362-546X(83)90061-5.
[4]	S. Ding and D. Sylvester, Weak reverse Hölder inequalities and imbedding inequalities for solutions to the $A$-harmonic equation, Nonlinear Anal., 51 (2002), 783-800. doi: 10.1016/S0362-546X(01)00862-8.
[5]	L. D'Onofrio and T. Iwaniec, The p-harmonic transform beyond its natural domain of definition, Indiana Univ. Math. J., 53 (2004), 683-718. doi: 10.1512/iumj.2004.53.2462.
[6]	Z. Feng, S. Zheng and H. Lu, Green's function of nonlinear degenerate elliptic operators and its application to regularity, Differential and Integral Equations, 21 (2008), 717-741.
[7]	Z. Feng and Q. G. Meng, Exact solution for a two-dimensional kdv-burgers-type equation with nonlinear terms of any order, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. B, 9 (2008), 397-413.
[8]	Z. Feng and G. Chen, Traveling wave solutions in parametric forms for a diffusion model with a nonlinear rate of growth, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 24 (2009), 763-780. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2009.24.763.
[9]	N. Fusco and J. Hutchinson, Partial regularity for minimizers of certain functionals having nonquadratic growth, Ann. Mat. Pura. Appl., 155 (1989), 1-24. doi: 10.1007/BF01765932.
[10]	D. Gilbarg and N. S. Trudinger, "Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order," Spinger-Verlag, Berlin, 2001.
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[12]	M. Giaquinta and G. Modica, Remark on the regularity of the minimizers of certain degenerate functionals, Manuscripta Math., 57 (1986), 55-99. doi: 10.1007/BF01172492.
[13]	J. Heinonen, T. Kilpeläinen and O. Martio, "Nonlinear Potential Theory of Degenerate Elliptic Equations," Oxford University Press, New York, 1993.
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[19]	T. Kilpeläinen and J. Malý, The wiener test and potential estimates for quasilinear elliptic equations, Acta Math., 172 (1994), 137-161. doi: 10.1007/BF02392793.
[20]	P. Koskela and O. Martio, Removability theorems for solution of degenerate elliptic PDEs, Ark. Mat., 31 (1993), 339-353. doi: 10.1007/BF02559490.
[21]	P. Lindqvist and O. Martio, Two theorems of N.Wiener for solutions of quasilinear elliptic equations, Acta Math., 155 (1985), 153-171. doi: 10.1007/BF02392541.
[22]	Q. A. Ladyzhenskaya and N. N. Ural'tseva, "Linear and Quasilinear Elliptic Equations" (in chinese), Science Press House, Beijing, 1985.
[23]	C. A. Nolder, Hardy-Littlewood theorems for $A$-harmonic tensors, Illinois J. Math., 43 (1999), 613-632.
[24]	Y. G. Reshetnyak, "Space Mappings with Bounded Distortion," Amer. Math. Soc. (Translation of Math Monographs), Vol. 73, Providence, 1989.
[25]	J. Serrin and H. H. Zou, Cauchy-Liouville and universal boundedness theorems for quasilinear elliptic equations and inequalities, Acta Math., 189 (2002), 79-142. doi: 10.1007/BF02392645.
[26]	N. S. Trudinger and X. J. Wang, On the weak continuity of elliptic operators and applications to potential theory, Amer. J. Math., 124 (2002), 369-410. doi: 10.1353/ajm.2002.0012.
[27]	K. Uhlenbeck, Regularity for a class of nonlinear elliptic systems, Acta Math., 138 (1977), 219-240. doi: 10.1007/BF02392316.
[28]	S. Zheng, Regualrity results for the generalized Beltrami systems, Acta Math. Sinica, 20 (2004), 193-205. doi: 10.1007/s10114-003-0250-x.
[29]	S. Zheng, Removable singularities of solutions of $A$-harmonic type equations, Acta Math. Appl. Sinica, 20 (2004), 115-122. doi: 10.1007/s10255-004-0154-2.
[30]	S. Zheng, X. Zheng and Z. Feng, Regularity for a class of degenerate elliptic equations with discontinuous coefficients under natural growth, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 346 (2008), 359-373. doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2008.05.059.

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