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Publications and source records attributed to Ferdinand Eitler.
We investigate into the regularity of $\mathrm{BV}^{\mathbb{A}}$-minimisers for $\mathbb{C}$-elliptic differential operators $\mathbb{A}$ in $2$ dimensions. Our studies strongly rely on the special structure of such differential operators. The gradient integrability is established for the sharp ellipticity range known from the (symmetric) gradient case.
We establish that locally bounded relaxed minimizers of degenerate elliptic symmetric gradient functionals on $\mathrm{BD}(\Omega)$ have weak gradients in $\mathrm{L}_{\mathrm{loc}}^{1}(\Omega;\mathbb{R}^{n\times n})$. This is achieved for the sharp ellipticity range that is presently known to yield $\mathrm{W}_{\mathrm{loc}}^{1,1}$-regularity in the full gradient case on $\mathrm{BV}(\Omega;\mathbb{R}^{n})$. As a consequence, we also obtain the first Sobolev regularity results for minimizers of the area-type functional on $\mathrm{BD}(\Omega)$.