“…Functionals with nearly linear growth have been the object of intensive investigation over the years. For this we mention, for instance, [22,23,24,101,109,111,178]. Their nonuniform ellipticity stems from their closeness to linear growth functionals, like for instance the minimal surface one, that are always nonuniformly elliptic; for this see [15,16,123,122,124,125] and related references for recent developments.…”