“…The literature on elliptic equations, under such a broad ellipticity condition as that defined in terms of N -functions Φ, is quite limited -see e.g. [Al,AdiBF1,AdiBF2,AlCi,Ci3,GSZ,GWWZ,GSZ]. Our results answer some questions in their general theory, and provide a unified framework for results available for functions Φ of special forms.…”