Sharp second-order regularity for widely degenerate elliptic equations

Pasquale Ambrosio, Antonio Giuseppe Grimaldi, Antonia Passarelli di Napoli

Published 2024-01-23Version 1

We consider local weak solutions of widely degenerate or singular elliptic PDEs of the type \begin{equation*} -\,\mathrm{div}\left((\vert Du\vert-\lambda)_{+}^{p-1}\frac{Du}{\vert Du\vert}\right)=f \,\,\,\,\,\,\, \text{in}\,\,\Omega, \end{equation*} where $\Omega$ is an open subset of $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ for $n\geq2$, $\lambda$ is a positive constant and $(\,\cdot\,)_{+}$ stands for the positive part. We establish some higher differentiability results, under essentially sharp conditions on the datum $f$. Our results improve the one contained in [8] for $\lambda=0$ and $p>2$, and give back a result similar to that in [12] for $1 < p \le 2$.