Estimates of Jacobians by subdeterminants

2002

Let ƒ: Ω → ℝn be a mapping in the Sobolev space W1,n−1(Ω,ℝn), n ≥ 2. We assume that the determinant of the differential matrix Dƒ (x) is nonnegative, while the cofactor matrix D#ƒ satisfies\(|D^\sharp f|^{\frac{n}{{n - 1}}} \in L^P (\Omega )\), where Lp(Ω) is an Orlicz space. We show that, under the natural Divergence Condition on P, see (1.10), the Jacobian lies in Lloc1 (Ω). Estimates above and below Lloc1 (Ω) are also studied. These results are stronger than the previously known estimates, having assumed integrability conditions on the differential matrix.