Existence of very weak solutions to nonlinear elliptic equation with nonstandard growth and global weighted gradient estimates

Abstract

We study a general class of quasilinear elliptic equations with nonstandard growth to prove the existence of a very weak solution to such a problem. A key ingredient in the proof is a priori global weighted gradient estimate of a very weak solution, where the right-hand side of the equation is the divergence of a vector-valued function with a low degree of integrability. To obtain this estimate, we adopt a notion of reverse Hölder class of Muckenhoupt weights. Another crucial part of the proof is a generalized weighted div-curl lemma in the setting of Orlicz spaces.