Partial regularity for anisotropic functionals of higher order

Carozza, Menita; Passarelli Di Napoli, Antonia

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, Tome 13 (2007) no. 4, pp. 692-706.

We prove a $C^{k,\alpha }$ partial regularity result for local minimizers of variational integrals of the type $I\left(u\right)={\int }_{\Omega }f\left(D^{k}u\left(x\right)\right)\mathrm{d}x$, assuming that the integrand $f$ satisfies $(p,q)$ growth conditions.

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