Regularity Results for Local Minimizers of Functionals with Discontinuous Coefficients

Abstract

We give an overview on recent regularity results of local vectorial minimizers of under two main features: the energy density is uniformly convex with respect to the gradient variable only at infinity and it depends on the spatial variable through a possibly discontinuous coefficient. More precisely, the results that we present tell that a suitable weak differentiability property of the integrand as function of the spatial variable implies the higher differentiability and the higher integrability of the gradient of the local minimizers. We also discuss the regularity of the local solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations under a fractional Sobolev assumption.