Estimates and existence results for some fully nonlinear elliptic equations on Riemannian manifolds (Q1866532)

The author studies the following fully nonlinear partial differential equation on a smooth compact \(n\)-dimensional Riemannian manifold \((N,g)\) \[ \sigma_k^{1/k} \Biggl(\nabla^2 u+du\otimes du -{|\nabla u|^2\over 2}g+S \Biggr) = \psi(x,u)>0, \] where \(\sigma_k\) is the \(k\)th elementary symmetric function of the eigenvalues, \(S\) is a symmetric tensor, \(\nabla\) denotes the gradient, \(\nabla^2\) denotes the Hessian, and \(du\) is the differential of \(u.\) There are obtained certain existence and regularity results.