Interior and boundary $W^{1,q}$-estimates for quasi-linear elliptic equations of Schrödinger type

Abstract

We consider nonlinear elliptic equations that are naturally obtained from the elliptic Schrödinger equation $-\Delta u+Vu=0$ in the setting of the calculus of variations, and obtain $L^q$-estimates for the gradient of weak solutions. In particular, we generalize a result of Shen in [Ann. Inst. Fourier 45 (1995), no. 2, 513--546] in the nonlinear setting by using a different approach. This allows us to consider discontinuous coefficients with a small BMO semi-norm and non-smooth boundaries which might not be Lipschitz continuous.

26pages, to appear in JDE