Global gradient estimates for asymptotically regular problems of p(x)-Laplacian type

Abstract

We study an asymptotically regular problem of [Formula: see text]-Laplacian type with discontinuous nonlinearity in a nonsmooth bounded domain. A global Calderón–Zygmund estimate is established for such a nonlinear elliptic problem with nonstandard growth under the assumption that the associated nonlinearity has a more general kind of the asymptotic behavior near the infinity with respect to the gradient variable. We also address an optimal regularity requirement on the nonlinearity as well as a minimal geometric assumption on the boundary of the domain for the nonlinear Calderón–Zygmund theory in the setting of variable exponent Sobolev spaces.