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On a constant rank theorem for nonlinear elliptic PDEs

Analysis of PDEs 2018-12-14 v2

Abstract

We give a new proof of Bian-Guan's constant rank theorem for nonlinear elliptic equations. Our approach is to use a linear expression of the eigenvalues of the Hessian instead of quotients of elementary symmetric functions.

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@article{arxiv.1509.07168,
  title  = {On a constant rank theorem for nonlinear elliptic PDEs},
  author = {Gábor Székelyhidi and Ben Weinkove},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.07168},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

11 pages, v2 final version to appear in Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. A

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