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Absolutely Minimising Generalised Solutions to the Equations of Vectorial Calculus of Variations in $L^\infty$

Consider the supremal functional \[ \tag{1} \label{1} E_\infty(u,A) \,:=\, \|L(\cdot,u,D u)\|_{L^\infty(A)},\quad A\subseteq Ω, \] applied to $W^{1,\infty}$ maps $u:Ω\subseteq \mathbb{R}\longrightarrow \mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq 1$. Under certain assumptions on $L$, we prove for any given boundary data the existence of a map which is: i) a vectorial Absolute Minimiser of \eqref{1} in the sense of Aronsson, ii) a generalised solution to the ODE system associated to \eqref{1} as the analogue of the Euler-Lagrange equations, iii) a limit of minimisers of the respective $L^p$ functionals as $p\rightarrow\infty$ for any $q\geq 1$ in the strong $W^{1,q}$ topology \& iv) partially $C^2$ on $Ω$ off an exceptional compact nowhere dense set. \noi {Our method is based on $L^p$ approximations and stable a priori partial regularity estimates. For item ii) we utilise the recently proposed by the author notion of $\mathcal{D}$-solutions in order to characterise the limit as a generalised solution. Our results are motivated from and apply to Data Assimilation in Meteorology.}