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This paper deals with local boundedness for minimizers of vectorial integrals under anisotropic growth conditions by using De Giorgi’s iterative method. We consider integral functionals with the first part of the integrand satisfying anisotropic growth conditions including a convex nondecreasing function $g$, and with the second part, a convex lower order term or a polyconvex lower order term. Local boundedness of minimizers is derived.

We are interested in regularizing effect of the interplay between the coefficient of zero order term and the datum in some noncoercive integral functionals of the type $$𝒥\left(v\right)={\int }_{\Omega }j(x,v,\nabla v)\mathrm{d}x+{\int }_{\Omega }a\left(x\right){\left|v\right|}^2\mathrm{d}x-{\int }_{\Omega }fv\mathrm{d}x,v\in W_0^{1,2}\left(\Omega \right),$$ where $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^N$, $j$ is a Carathéodory function such that $\xi \mapsto j(x,s,\xi )$ is convex, and there exist constants $0\le \tau <1$ and $M>0$ such that $$\frac{{\left|\xi \right|}^2}{{(1+|s\left|\right)}^{\tau }}\le j(x,s,\xi )\le M{\left|\xi \right|}^2$$ for almost all $x\in \Omega$, all $s\in ℝ$ and all $\xi \in {ℝ}^N$. We show that, even if $0<a\left(x\right)$ and $f\left(x\right)$ only belong to $L^1\left(\Omega \right)$, the interplay $$\left|f\right(x\left)\right|\le 2Qa\left(x\right)$$ implies the existence of a minimizer $u\in W_0^{1,2}\left(\Omega \right)$ which belongs to $L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)$.