Local gradient estimates for degenerate elliptic equations

This paper is focused on the local interior $W^{1,infty}$-regularity for weak solutions of degenerate elliptic equations of the form $text{div}[mathbf{a}(x,u, abla u)] +b(x, u, abla u) =0$, which include those of $p$-Laplacian type. We derive an explicit estimate of the local $L^infty$-norm for the solutions gradient in terms of its local $L^p$-norm. Specifically, we prove begin{equation*} | abla u|_{L^infty(B_{frac{R}{2}}(x_0))}^p leq frac{C}{|B_R(x_0)|}int_{B_R(x_0)}| abla u(x)|^p dx. end{equation*} This estimate paves the way for our forthcoming work in establishing $W^{1,q}$-estimates (for $q>p$) for weak solutions to a much larger class of quasilinear elliptic equations.