Year
2022
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics
Abstract
In this thesis, we study some important nonlinear partial differential equations, including the Monge-Ampere equation, the k-Hessian equation and the k-curvature equation. There are four problems studied in this thesis.
Chapter 2 concerns the existence and uniqueness of Alexandrov’s solutions for the Dirichlet problem of the Monge-Ampere equation by the continuity method.
Chapter 3 contains a new proof for the interior C2,α regularity of the Monge- Ampere equation under the assumption sup Ω |D2u(x)| ≤ Λ by using the Green function.
Chapter 4 presents the interior C1,α regularity for the k-Hessian equation and the k-curvature equation with the boundary condition u = 0 on ∂Ω.
Finally, in chapter 5, we present the global C1,α regularity for the k-Hessian equation and the k-curvature equation with the boundary condition u = φ on ∂Ω.
Recommended Citation
Wu, Yating, The regularity for the Monge-Ampere equation and the k-Hessian equation, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong, 2022. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses1/1450
FoR codes (2008)
0101 PURE MATHEMATICS
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