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We consider the Dirichlet problem for two types of degenerate elliptic Hessian equations . New results about solvability of the equations in the $C^{1,1}$ space are provided.

In this paper, we establish a curvature estimate for semi-convex solutions of Hessian equations in hyperbolic space. We also obtain a curvature estimate for admissible solutions to prescribed curvature measure type problem in hyperbolic…

Using the established $d$-concavity of the $k$-Hessian type functions $F_k(R)=\log(S_k(R)),$ whose variables are nonsymmetric matrices, we prove $ C^{2, \alpha}(\overline{\Omega}) $ estimates for strictly $(\delta, \widetilde{\gamma}_k)…

We show that for a very general class of curvature functions defined in the positive cone, the problem of finding a complete strictly locally convex hypersurface in $H^n+1$ satisfying $f(\kappa)=\sigma\in(0, 1)$ with a prescribed asymptotic…

This paper extends our earlier results to higher dimensions using a different approach, based on the rigidity of complex structures on certain domains.

In this paper, we exploit the concavity of sums of Hessian operators to derive Pogorelov estimates for corresponding equations under the dynamic semi-convexity assumption, and we further obtain several Liouville-type results. Moreover, when…

For a non-empty, bounded, open, and convex set of class $C^2$, we consider the Torsional Rigidity associated to the $k$-Hessian operator. We first prove P\'olya type lower bound for the $k$-Torsional Rigidity in any dimension; then, in…

We establish interior $W^{2,\delta}$ type estimates for a class of degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic equations with $L^n$ data. The main idea of our approach is to slide $C^{1,\alpha}$ cones, instead of paraboloids, vertically to touch…

In this paper, the existence and multiplicity of nontrivial radial convex solutions to general coupled system of $k_i$-Hessian equations in a unit ball are studied via a fixed-point theorem. In particular, we obtain the uniqueness of…

In this paper, under suitable settings, we can obtain the existence and uniqueness of solutions to a class of Hessian quotient equations with Dirichlet boundary condition in Lorentz-Minkowski space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}_{1}$, which can be seen…

In this paper, we consider the Dirichlet problem for a new class of augmented Hessian equations. Under sharp assumptions that the matrix function in the augmented Hessian is regular and there exists a smooth subsolution, we establish global…

In this paper, we provide examples to show that for $1 \leq k \leq n/2$, solutions to $k$-Hessian equations $S_k(D^2u)=1$ in the exterior of a strictly convex domain need not be quasiconvex, when prescribing quadratic growth at infinity.…

In this paper we obtain interior regularity estimates for viscosity solutions of nonlocal Dirichlet problems that degenerate when the gradient of the solution vanishes. Interior H\"older estimates are obtained when the order of the…

We obtain a prior $C^{1,1}$ estimates for some Hessian (quotient) equations with positive Lipschitz right hand sides, through studying a twisted special Lagrangian equation. The results imply the interior $C^{2,\alpha}$ regularity for $C^0$…

In this work, we prove the existence of local convex solution to the degenerate Hessian equation

We focus on three different convexity principles for local and nonlocal variational integrals. We prove various generalizations of them, as well as their equivalences. Some applications to nonlinear eigenvalue problems and Hardy-type…

We derive a priori interior Hessian estimates for the special Lagrangian equation $\sigma_{2}=1$ in dimension three.

The Convex Envelope of a given function was recently characterized as the solution of a fully nonlinear Partial Differential Equation (PDE). In this article we study a modified problem: the Dirichlet problem for the underlying PDE. The main…

We establish $C^2$ a priori estimate for convex hypersurfaces whose principal curvatures $\kappa=(\kappa_1,..., \kappa_n)$ satisfying Weingarten curvature equation $\sigma_k(\kappa(X))=f(X,\nu(X))$. We also obtain such estimate for…

We establish for $2 \le k \le n-1$ the strict concavity of the function $f_k(\lambda)=\log(\sigma_k(\lambda))$ on a subset of the positive cone $\Gamma_n=\{\lambda=(\lambda_{1}, \lambda_{2}, \cdots,\lambda_{n})\in \mathbb{R}^n;…