Existence of strong solutions of Pucci extremal equations with superlinear growth in \(Du\) (Q2431363)

The Dirichlet boundary value problem for Pucci extremal equations with superlinear growth in \(Du\) and unbounded coefficients of the form are considered: \(\mathcal{P}^{\pm}(D^2u) \pm \gamma(x) |D(x)| \pm \mu(x) |Du|^m = f(x)\) in \(\Omega\), \(u = \phi\) on \(\partial \Omega\), where \(\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n\) is a bounded domain with \(C^{1,1}\) boundary, \(\mu \in L^q(\Omega)\), \(\gamma \in L^{q_1}(\Omega)\), \(f \in L^p(\Omega)\), \(m > 1\), \(p_0 < p \leq q_1\), \(q_1 > n\), and \(P^{\pm}\) is the Pucci extremal operators, \(p_0\) is the constant which gives the range of exponents for which an Aleksandrov-Bakelman-Pucci type maximum principle holds for the above equation. The existence of strong solutions is proved through the standard Schauder fixed point theorem and a global \(W^{2,p}\) estimates for solutions of fully nonlinear equations. This result is applied to establish the weak Harnack inequality for \(L^p\)-viscosity supersolutions of fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic PDEs with superlinear growth terms with respect to \(Du\).