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On the continuity of degenerate n-harmonic functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 September 2011

Flavia Giannetti
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni “R. Caccioppoli”, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy. antonia.passarelli@unina.it; flavia.giannetti@unina.it
Antonia Passarelli di Napoli
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni “R. Caccioppoli”, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy. antonia.passarelli@unina.it; flavia.giannetti@unina.it
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Abstract

We study the regularity of finite energy solutions to degenerate n-harmonic equations. The function K(x), which measures the degeneracy, is assumed to be subexponentially integrable, i.e. it verifies the condition exp(P(K)) ∈ Lloc1. The function P(t) is increasing on  [0,∞[  and satisfies the divergence condition \begin{equation} \int_1^\infty\frac{P(t)}{t^2}\,{\rm d}t=\infty. \end{equation}∫1∞P(t)t2 dt=∞.

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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2011

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