The boundedness and Hölder continuity of weak solutions to elliptic equations involving variable exponents and critical growth

Ky Ho, Yun-Ho Kim, Patrick Winkert, Chao Zhang

Published 2020-10-28Version 1

In this paper we prove the boundedness and H\"older continuity of quasilinear elliptic problems involving variable exponents for a homogeneous Dirichlet and a nonhomogeneous Neumann boundary condition, respectively. The novelty of our work is the fact that we allow critical growth even on the boundary and so we close the gap in the papers of Fan-Zhao [Nonlinear Anal. 36 (1999), no. 3, 295--318.] and Winkert-Zacher [Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. S 5 (2012), no. 4, 865--878.] in which the critical cases are excluded. Our approach is based on a modified version of De Giorgi's iteration technique along with the localization method. As a consequence of our results, the $C^{1,\alpha}$-regularity follows immediately.