Minimizers of a functional with exponential growth are shown to be smooth. The techniques developed for power growth are not applicable to the exponential case.
@article{118469, author = {Gary M. Lieberman}, title = {On the regularity of the minimizer of a functional with exponential growth}, journal = {Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae}, volume = {33}, year = {1992}, pages = {45-49}, zbl = {0776.49026}, mrnumber = {1173745}, language = {en}, url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/118469} }
Lieberman, Gary M. On the regularity of the minimizer of a functional with exponential growth. Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae, Tome 33 (1992) pp. 45-49. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/118469/
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