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Regularity results for elliptic systems of second order quasilinear PDEs with nonlinear growth of order $q>2$ are proved, extending results of [7] and [10]. In particular Hölder regularity of the solutions is obtained if the dimension $n$ is less than or equal to $q+2$.

Let $\mathrm{\Omega }$ be a bounded open subset of $R^n$, $n>4$, of class $C^2$ . Let $u\in H^2\left(\mathrm{\Omega }\right)$ a solution of elliptic non linear non variational system $$a\left(x,u,Du,H\left(u\right)\right)=b\left(x,u,Du\right)$$ where $a\left(x,u,\mu ,\xi \right)$ and $b\left(x,u,\mu \right)$ are vectors in $R^N$, $N\ge 1$, measurable in $x$, continuous in $\left(u,\mu ,\xi \right)$ and $\left(u,\mu \right)$ respectively. Here, we demonstrate that if $b\left(x,u,\mu \right)$ has limit controlled growth, if $a\left(x,u,\mu ,\xi \right)$ is of class $C^1$ in $\xi$ and satisfies the Campanato condition $\left(A\right)$ and, together with $\frac{\partial a}{\partial \xi }$, certain continuity assumptions, then the vector $Du$ is partially Hölder continuous for every exponent $\alpha <1-\frac{n}{p}$.

In this paper we deal with the Hölder regularity up to the boundary of the solutions to a nonhomogeneous Dirichlet problem for second order discontinuous elliptic systems with nonlinearity $q>1$ and with natural growth. The aim of the paper is to clarify that the solutions of the above problem are always global Hölder continuous in the case of the dimension $n=q$ without any kind of regularity assumptions on the coefficients. As a consequence of this sharp result, the singular sets are always empty for...