In this paper we prove an estimate for the measure of superlevel sets of weak solutions to quasilinear elliptic systems in divergence form. In some special cases, such an estimate allows us to improve on the integrability of the solution.

We prove that the higher integrability of the data $f,f_0$ improves on the integrability of minimizers $u$ of functionals $ℱ$, whose model is $${\int }_{\Omega }\left[{\left|Du\right|}^p+{(det\left(Du\right))}^2-\langle f,Du\rangle +\langle f_0,u\rangle \right]dx,$$ where $u:\Omega \subset {ℝ}^n\to {ℝ}^n$ and $p\ge 2$.

The paper deals with very weak solutions $u\in \theta +W_0^{1,r}\left(\Omega \right)$, $max\{1,p-1\}<r<p<n$, to boundary value problems of the $p$-harmonic equation $$\left\{\begin{array}{cc}-\text{div}\left(\right|\nabla u\left(x\right){|}^{p-2}\nabla u\left(x\right))=0,\hfill & x\in \Omega ,\hfill \\ u\left(x\right)=\theta \left(x\right),\hfill & x\in \partial \Omega .\hfill \end{array}\right.(*)$$ We show that, under the assumption $\theta \in W^{1,q}\left(\Omega \right)$, $q>r$, any very weak solution $u$ to the boundary value problem ($*$) is integrable with $$u\in \left\{\begin{array}{cc}\theta +L_{\mathrm{weak}}^{q^{*}}\left(\Omega \right)\hfill & \text{for}q<n,\hfill \\ \theta +L_{\mathrm{weak}}^{\tau }\left(\Omega \right)\hfill & \text{for}q=n\text{and}\text{any}\tau <\infty ,\hfill \\ \theta +L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)\hfill & \text{for}q>n,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ provided that $r$ is sufficiently close to $p$.

The aim of this note is to indicate how inequalities concerning the integral of ${\left|\nabla u\right|}^2$ on the subsets where |u(x)| is greater than k ($k\in I{R}^{+}$) can be used in order to prove summability properties of u (joint work with Daniela Giachetti). This method was introduced by Ennio De Giorgi and Guido Stampacchia for the study of the regularity of the solutions of Dirichlet problems. In some joint works with Thierry Gallouet, inequalities concerning the integral of ${\left|\nabla u\right|}^2$ on the subsets where |u(x)| is less than k ($k\in I{R}^{+}$) or...

A conformal finite element method is investigated for a dual variational formulation of the biharmonic problem with mixed boundary conditions on domains with piecewise smooth curved boundary. Thus in the problem of elastic plate the bending moments are calculated directly. For the construction of finite elements a vector potential is used together with $C^0$-elements. The convergence of the method is proved and an algorithm described.

Using the stream function, some finite element subspaces of divergence-free vector functions, the normal components of which vanish on a part of the piecewise smooth boundary, are constructed. Applying these subspaces, an internal approximation of the dual problem for second order elliptic equations is defined. A convergence of this method is proved without any assumption of a regularity of the solution. For sufficiently smooth solutions an optimal rate of convergence is proved. The internal approximation...