Regularity for Minimizers of non Autonomous Singular Functionals with Anisotropic Growth

Abstract

We establish the higher differentiability of the local minimizers to a class of non autonomous convex integral functionals satisfying anisotropic subquadratic growth conditions, that include, as a particular case, those with orthotropic structure. The result is obtained under a gap bound on the exponents \(p_i\), that guarantees the local boundedness of the minimizers and under a suitable Sobolev assumption on the map that measures the oscillation of the energy density with respect to the $x$ variable, that is independent on the dimension.