Global Lorentz and Lorentz–Morrey estimates below the natural exponent for quasilinear equations

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Lorentz and Lorentz–Morrey estimates are obtained for gradients of very weak solutions to quasilinear equations of the form

$$\begin{aligned} \text {div}\,\mathcal {A}(x, \nabla u)=\text {div}\, |\mathbf{f}|^{p-2}\mathbf{f}, \end{aligned}$$

where \(\text {div}\,\mathcal {A}(x, \nabla u)\) is modelled after the p-Laplacian, \(p>1\). The estimates are global over bounded domains that satisfy a mild exterior uniform thickness condition that involves the p-capacity. The vector field datum \(\mathbf{f}\) is allowed to have low degrees of integrability and thus solutions may not have finite \(L^p\) energy. A higher integrability result at the boundary of the ground domain is also obtained for infinite energy solutions to the associated homogeneous equations.

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Adimurthi, K., Phuc, N.C. Global Lorentz and Lorentz–Morrey estimates below the natural exponent for quasilinear equations. Calc. Var. 54, 3107–3139 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-015-0895-1

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