ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
On weak minima of certain integral functionals
Authors 1
Affiliations
- D.I.I.M.A., Università Degli Studi di Salerno, Via S. Allende, 84081 Baronissi (SA), Italy
Abstract
We prove a regularity result for weak minima of integral functionals of the form where F(x,ξ) is a Carathéodory function which grows as with some p > 1.
Keywords
weak minimizer, maximal functions
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