Use the Weak Harnack inequality: for some and every nonnegative weak supersolution,
where and depend only on . A weak solution is both a subsolution and a supersolution. Applying part (i), after rescaling from to , and then the weak Harnack inequality gives
This is the Harnack inequality for uniformly elliptic divergence-form equations.
Suppose . The coefficient matrices in part (ii) then have uniform ellipticity constants depending only on . Applying the Harnack inequality for uniformly elliptic divergence-form equations to the nonnegative solutions and gives a scale-independent oscillation contraction
Scaling back,
For fixed , iterate this estimate with and use the global bound to obtain . Every partial derivative is therefore constant, so is an affine function. This is a bounded-gradient Bernstein theorem for entire minimal graphs.