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Hölder gradient estimates for fully nonlinear elliptic equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Neil S. Trudinger
Neil S. Trudinger
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Gottfried-Claren-Straβe 26, D-5300 Bonn 3, West Germany; Centre for Mathematical Analysis, Australian National University, Canberra G.P.O. Box 4, A.C.T. 2600, Australia
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In this paper we prove interior and global Hölder estimates for Lipschitz viscosity solutions of second order, nonlinear, uniformly elliptic equations. The smoothness hypotheses on the operators are more general than previously considered for classical solutions, so that our estimates are also new in this case and readily extend to embrace obstacle problems. In particular Isaac's equations of stochastic differential game theory constitute a special case of our results, and moreover our techniques, in combination with recent existence theorems of Ishii, lead to existence theorems for continuously differentiable viscosity solutions of the uniformly elliptic Isaac's equation.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 108 , Issue 1-2 , 1988 , pp. 57 - 65
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1988

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