Suppose in and write . The preceding uniform Schauder estimate bounds in . Every subsequence therefore has a further subsequence converging in by the compact embedding of Hölder spaces. The composed coefficients converge uniformly, and lower-exponent Hölder compactness provides enough convergence of the second derivatives to pass to the linear equation. Every subsequential limit solves the problem defining .
Uniqueness of that linear Dirichlet problem forces every such limit to equal . Since every subsequence has a further subsequence with this same limit, the whole sequence converges to in . Thus is continuous.
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Join the Laplace operator to the target operator by
The family has one ellipticity constant. The global Schauder estimate and the maximum principle give, uniformly in ,
for zero boundary data. Let contain those for which is onto. The assumed Laplace solvability gives ; the bounded inverse theorem and small perturbations make open; and the uniform estimate plus compactness of lower Hölder embeddings makes closed. The method of continuity yields . At this gives the required solution, and the maximum principle gives uniqueness.
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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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