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For the divergence-form elliptic operator use the weak subsolution convention $\int a^{ij}{D}_{j}u{D}_i\phi \le 0$ for nonnegative test functions. Set $u_{\epsilon }=u+\epsilon$ and test with $\phi ={\eta }^2{u}_{\epsilon }^{\beta -1}$, where $\beta >1$. The Sobolev chain rule makes this test admissible; boundedness and the positive regularization control the derivative of its power. Ellipticity and the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality give, with $X=\int |Du{|}^2{u}_{\epsilon }^{\beta -2}{\eta }^2$ and $Y=\int u_{\epsilon }^{\beta }|D\eta {|}^2$,Division when $X>0$, and the trivial case $X=0$, establish the power Caccioppoli inequality. Letting $\epsilon \downarrow 0$ givesFor $1<\beta <2$ this limit uses the Fatou lemma; the gradient of a Sobolev function vanishes on a level set, so the weighted integrand is assigned zero on $\{u=0\}$. The same regularization justifies differentiating $u^{\beta /2}\eta$ in $W^{1,2}$.

The PDF bounds individual entries by $\Lambda$. Then ${\Lambda }_{\ast }\le n\Lambda$: dimensional factors are included in the ellipticity constants when the first estimate is written as $C(\lambda ,\Lambda )$. With literal entrywise bounds, the explicit valid constant displayed here is $4n^2{\Lambda }^2/{\lambda }^2$. If $\Lambda$ bounds the operator norm instead, it is $4{\Lambda }^2/{\lambda }^2$. This distinction does not alter any later conclusion, whose constants explicitly depend on $n$.

For $n\ge 3$, put $\sigma =n/(n-2)$. Apply the Sobolev inequality to $g=u^{\beta /2}\eta$ and useFor $\beta \ge p>1$, $\beta /(\beta -1)\le p/(p-1)$, so the resulting constant is uniform in $\beta$. Taking a cutoff equal to one on $B_r$, supported in $B_R$, with $|D\eta |\le C/(R-r)$, yieldsAt $R=1$ a compactly supported cutoff can still be chosen with this bound by leaving an outer margin; alternatively pass to the limit from smaller radii.

For Moser iteration, set ${\beta }_j=p{\sigma }^j$ and $r_j=1/2+2^{-j-1}$. Repeated use of the preceding estimate bounds the successive norms byThis product is finite becauseAs the exponents tend to infinity, their norms on the Euclidean ball of radius $1/2$ tend to its essential supremum. ThereforeThe power $\beta$ is independent of the exponents of Hölder continuity in earlier questions.