Solution

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Part c supplies a bounded slope condition constant . Choose . Parts a and d give a constrained minimizer with , and part b makes it a minimizer over all of .
For , the Euler-Lagrange equation is the minimal surface equation for a graph
The Lipschitz bound confines to a compact set on which is uniformly positive definite, so the equation is uniformly elliptic. Interior regularity gives first, and repeated Schauder estimates then give smoothness in the interior.
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