The obstacle problem for nonlinear degenerate equations with $L^{1}$-data

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to study the obstacle problem with an elliptic operator having degenerate coercivity. We prove the existence of an entropy solution to the obstacle problem under the assumption of L 1 −summability on the data. Meanwhile, we prove that every entropy solution belongs to some Sobolev space W 1,q (Ω).