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Abstract

We prove an existence and uniqueness theorem for the elliptic Dirichlet problem for the equation div a(x,∇u) = f in a planar domain Ω. Here $f ∈ L^1(Ω)$ and the solution belongs to the so-called grand Sobolev space $W_0^{1,2)}(Ω)$. This is the proper space when the right hand side is assumed to be only $L^1$-integrable. In particular, we obtain the exponential integrability of the solution, which in the linear case was previously proved by Brezis-Merle and Chanillo-Li.