Put and
First suppose . For an interior ball , with , write , , and . Constant shifts of a divergence-form elliptic operator change its forcing. The two nonnegative weak supersolutions and satisfy, respectively,
Their Weak Harnack inequalities on therefore have forcing errors bounded by . Indeed , the new divergence forcing is bounded by , and the scalar forcing by ; also .
On we have . Even if , the elementary inequality implies
The sum of the two essential infima is . Enlarging a uniform constant gives
where . This is an oscillation decay estimate; inhomogeneous oscillation decay implies Hölder continuity. Choose
Iterating on concentric balls, starting at a fixed admissible radius , yields
The strict choice of bounds the geometric series, including the case in which the two original decay rates coincide. Monotonicity of oscillation extends this bound to intermediate radii.
Take uniformly smaller than the distance of from the boundary of . The vanishing essential oscillation produces a continuous representative of . A ball centred at either of two sufficiently close points of contains both, so its oscillation bounds their difference by . For separated points use . Thus the Hölder seminorm satisfies
The constants depend only on the indicated domain separation, dimension, coefficient norms, uniform ellipticity bounds and . If the global essential supremum is infinite, the displayed global estimate is vacuous; local boundedness of weak elliptic subsolutions on slightly larger compact subsets still makes the same argument prove interior Hölder continuity.