Regularity and symmetry results for the vectorial p-Laplacian

Abstract

We obtain some regularity results for solutions to vectorial $p$-Laplace equations $$ -{\boldsymbol \Delta}_p{\boldsymbol u}=-\operatorname{\bf div}(|D{\boldsymbol u}|^{p-2}D{\boldsymbol u}) = {\boldsymbol f}(x,{\boldsymbol u})\,\, \mbox{ in $\Omega$}\,.$$ More precisely we address the issue of second order estimates for the stress field. As a consequence of our regularity results we deduce a weighted Sobolev inequality that leads to weak comparison principles. As a corollary we run over the moving plane technique to deduce symmetry and monotonicity results for the solutions, under suitable assumptions.