On the Dirichlet problem for non-totally degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic equations

Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 709-731

  Bardi, Martino ^a   Mannucci, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Comparison principle; Degenerate elliptic equation; Heisenberg group; Pucci operators; Subelliptic equation; Viscosity solution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751162615     PISSN: 15340392     EISSN: 15535258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/cpaa.2006.5.709     Document Type: Article

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