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We describe some basic results from regularity theory for solutions to elliptic quasilinear equations involving an assigned measure datum and we include some new integrability and differentiability results for sublinear problems.

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To Lucio Boccardo on his mth birthday, $${m \in}$$ (60, 65)

This work has been supported by the ERC grant 207573 “Vectorial problems”.

Lecture held in the Seminario Matematico e Fisico di Milano on March 4, 2010

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Mingione, G. Nonlinear Measure Data Problems. Milan J. Math. 79, 429–496 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00032-011-0168-1

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