# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

August  2012, 5(4): 865-878. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2012.5.865

## A priori bounds for weak solutions to elliptic equations with nonstandard growth

 1 Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Mathematik, Straße des 17. Juni 136, 10623 Berlin, Germany 2 Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Mathematik, Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 5, D-06120 Halle, Germany

Received  March 2011 Revised  July 2011 Published  November 2011

In this paper we study elliptic equations with a nonlinear conormal derivative boundary condition involving nonstandard growth terms. By means of the localization method and De Giorgi's iteration technique we derive global a priori bounds for weak solutions of such problems.
Citation: Patrick Winkert, Rico Zacher. A priori bounds for weak solutions to elliptic equations with nonstandard growth. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2012, 5 (4) : 865-878. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2012.5.865
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##### References:
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Appl., 263 (2001), 424. doi: 10.1006/jmaa.2000.7617. Google Scholar [18] X. Fan and D. Zhao, The quasi-minimizer of integral functionals with $m(x)$ growth conditions,, Nonlinear Anal., 39 (2000), 807. doi: 10.1016/S0362-546X(98)00239-9. Google Scholar [19] L. Gasiński and N. S. Papageorgiou, Anisotropic nonlinear Neumann problems,, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, 42 (2011), 323. doi: 10.1007/s00526-011-0390-2. Google Scholar [20] J. Habermann and A. Zatorska-Goldstein, Regularity for minimizers of functionals with nonstandard growth by $\mathcalA$-harmonic approximation,, NoDEA Nonlinear Differential Equations Appl., 15 (2008), 169. doi: 10.1007/s00030-007-7007-7. Google Scholar [21] P. Harjulehto, J. Kinnunen and T. Lukkari, Unbounded supersolutions of nonlinear equations with nonstandard growth,, Bound. Value Probl., (2007). Google Scholar [22] O. Kováčik and J. Rákosník, On spaces $L^{p(x)}$ and $W^{k,p(x)}$,, Czechoslovak Math. J., 41(116) (1991), 592. 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Servadei, Regularity of weak solutions of homogeneous or inhomogeneous quasilinear elliptic equations,, Indiana Univ. Math. J., 57 (2008), 3329. doi: 10.1512/iumj.2008.57.3525. Google Scholar [29] K. R. Rajagopal and M. Růžička, Mathematical modeling of electrorheological materials,, Cont. Mech. and Thermodyn., 13 (2001), 59. doi: 10.1007/s001610100034. Google Scholar [30] W. Rudin, "Functional Analysis,", McGraw-Hill Series in Higher Mathematics, (1973). Google Scholar [31] M. Růžička, "Electrorheological Fluids: Modeling and Mathematical Theory,", Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1748 (2000). Google Scholar [32] V. Vergara and R. Zacher, A priori bounds for degenerate and singular evolutionary partial integro-differential equations,, Nonlinear Anal., 73 (2010), 3572. doi: 10.1016/j.na.2010.07.039. Google Scholar [33] P. Winkert, Constant-sign and sign-changing solutions for nonlinear elliptic equations with Neumann boundary values,, Adv. Differential Equations, 15 (2010), 561. 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