Special Session 87: 

${C^{1,\alpha }}$-Regularity for Quasilinear Degenerate Elliptic Equations with a Drift Term on the Heisenberg Group

Junli Zhang
Northwestern Polytechnical University
Peoples Rep of China
Co-Author(s):    Pengcheng Niu
Abstract:
This talk is to derive the ${C^{1,\alpha }}$-regularity of weak solutions to a quasilinear degenerate elliptic equation with a drift term on the Heisenberg group. Establishing a Caccioppoli inequality (i.e. energy estimate) for the horizontal gradient of weak solutions, we use it and the Sobolev embedding theorem on the Heisenberg group and the Moser iteration method to prove the local boundedness of the horizontal gradient of weak solutions. Then we prove an oscillation estimate for the horizontal gradient of weak solutions and combine the iteration Lemma to show that the horizontal gradient of weak solutions is H\{o}lder continuous.