The Calderón-Zygmund theory for elliptic problems with measure data

Mingione, Giuseppe

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Série 5, Tome 6 (2007) no. 2, pp. 195-261.

We consider non-linear elliptic equations having a measure in the right-hand side, of the type $diva(x,Du)=\mu ,$ and prove differentiability and integrability results for solutions. New estimates in Marcinkiewicz spaces are also given, and the impact of the measure datum density properties on the regularity of solutions is analyzed in order to build a suitable Calderón-Zygmund theory for the problem. All the regularity results presented in this paper are provided together with explicit local a priori estimates.

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