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Liao, Dongni; Wang, Jialin; Yang, Qiang; Wu, Shimin

Partial interior regularity for sub-elliptic systems with dini continuous coefficients in Carnot groups: the sub-quadratic controllable case. (English) Zbl 1386.35049

Bound. Value Probl. 2017, Paper No. 150, 24 p. (2017).
Summary: We consider nonlinear sub-elliptic systems with Dini continuous coefficients for the case \(1< m<2\) in Carnot groups and prove a \(C^1\)-partial regularity result for weak solutions under the controllable growth conditions. Our method of proof for sub-elliptic systems is based on a generalization of the technique of \(\mathcal {A}\)-harmonic approximation. It is interesting to point out that our result is optimal in the sense that in the case of Hölder continuous coefficients we get directly the optimal Hölder exponent on its regular set.

MSC:

35H20 Subelliptic equations
35B65 Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs

Keywords:

nonlinear sub-elliptic system; Dini continuous coefficients; sub-quadratic controllable growth; optimal partial regularity; Carnot groups
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