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On the regularity up to the boundary for certain nonlinear elliptic systems

• We consider a class of nonlinear elliptic systems and we prove regularity up to the boundary for second order derivatives. In the proof we trace carefully the dependence on the various parameters of the problem, in order to establish, in a further work, results for more general systems.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J25; Secondary: 35B65, 35J70.

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