arXiv · 2607.17045
Estimates on elliptic equations that hold only where the Hessian is large
Abstract
In this article, we establish H\"older regularity for viscosity solutions to a class of degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic equations of the form \[ F(D^2u,Du)=f(x)~~\text{in}~~B_1, \] where the operator is elliptic only in regions where the Hessian is sufficiently large. Such equations arise naturally in free boundary problems and models with partial ellipticity. The proof combines a modified cusp function with a decomposition of the contact set in a point-to-measure argument. As a consequence, interior H\"older continuity follows under natural structural assumptions.
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Amit Kumar Acharya, Ram Baran Verma. 2026-07-19. Estimates on elliptic equations that hold only where the Hessian is large. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.17045
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