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Harnack inequality for anisotropic fully nonlinear equations with nonstandard growth

Analysis of PDEs 2026-04-10 v1

Abstract

We establish Harnack inequalities for viscosity solutions of a class of degenerate fully nonlinear anisotropic elliptic equations exhibiting non-standard growth conditions. A primary example of such operators is the degenerate anisotropic (pi)(p_i)-Laplacian. Our approach relies on the sliding paraboloid method, adapted with suitably chosen anisotropic functions to derive the basic measure estimates. A central contribution of this work is the development of a doubling property, achieved through the explicit construction of a novel barrier function. By combining these tools with the intrinsic geometry techniques introduced in [DGV08, VV25], we prove the intrinsic Harnack inequality for this class of operators under appropriate conditions on the exponents (pi)(p_i).

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@article{arxiv.2604.07783,
  title  = {Harnack inequality for anisotropic fully nonlinear equations with nonstandard growth},
  author = {Sun-Sig Byun and Hongsoo Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.07783},
  year   = {2026}
}

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20 pages