Abstract

We establish a local Lipschitz regularity result for minimizers of variational integrals with lower order terms, under the assumption that the integrand becomes appropriately convex at infinity.

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Antonia Passarelli di Napoli

Dip. di Matematica "R. Caccioppoli", Università di Napoli "Federico II", Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy

antonia.passarelli@unina.it

Anna Verde

Dip. di Matematica "R. Caccioppoli", Università di Napoli "Federico II", Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy

anverde@unina.it

Keywords

  • Local minimizers
  • asymptotic behaviour
  • comparison method

Mathematics Subject Classification

35B65, 35J70

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Suggested citation

A. Passarelli di Napoli, A. Verde. “A Regularity Result for Asymptotically Convex Problems with Lower Order Terms.” Journal of Convex Analysis 15 (2008), No. 1, 131–148. https://doi.org/10.68381/jca15009

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