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Keywords:
regularity; quasilinear functionals; calculus of variations
Summary:
In this paper we establish a continuity result for local minimizers of some quasilinear functionals that satisfy degenerate elliptic bounds. The non-negative function which measures the degree of degeneracy is assumed to be exponentially integrable. The minimizers are shown to have a modulus of continuity controlled by \$\log \log (1/|x|)^{-1}\$. Our proof adapts ideas developed for solutions of degenerate elliptic equations by J. Onninen, X. Zhong: Continuity of solutions of linear, degenerate elliptic equations, Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci. (5) 6 (2007), 103–116.
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