LOCAL AND GLOBAL REGULARITY OF WEAK SOLUTIONS OF ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS WITH SUPERQUADRATIC HAMILTONIAN

摘要

In this paper, we study the regularity of weak solutions and sub-solutions of second order elliptic equations having a gradient-dependent term with superquadratic growth. We show that, under appropriate integrability conditions on the data, all weak subsolutions in a bounded and regular open set Omega are Holder-continuous up to the boundary of Omega. Some local and global summability results are also presented. The main feature of this kind of problem is that the gradient term, not the principal part of the operator, is responsible for the regularity.