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On the regularity of solutions of one-dimensional variational obstacle problems

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Published/Copyright: November 30, 2016

Abstract

We study the regularity of solutions of one-dimensional variational obstacle problems in W1,1 when the Lagrangian is locally Hölder continuous and globally elliptic. In the spirit of the work of Sychev [5, 6, 7], a direct method is presented for investigating such regularity problems with obstacles. This consists of introducing a general subclass of W1,1, related in a certain way to one-dimensional variational obstacle problems, such that every function of has Tonelli’s partial regularity, and then to prove that, depending on the regularity of the obstacles, solutions of corresponding variational problems belong to . As an application of this direct method, we prove that if the obstacles are C1,σ, then every Sobolev solution has Tonelli’s partial regularity.

MSC 2010: 49J05

Communicated by Jan Kristensen


Acknowledgements

I gratefully acknowledge M. A. Sychev for introducing me to the subject of regularity of one-dimensional variational obstacle problems, and for his many comments during the preparation of this paper.

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Received: 2016-6-19
Revised: 2016-8-31
Accepted: 2016-11-14
Published Online: 2016-11-30
Published in Print: 2018-4-1

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