Radial solutions for equations of Weingarten type (Q2674313)

This paper mainly investigates the existence of classical solutions to the two-dimensional fully nonlinear Weingarten equation \[ \begin{cases} a~\operatorname{div}\frac{Du}{\sqrt{1+|Du|^2}}+b~\frac{\mathrm{det}D^2u}{(1+|Du|^2)^2}=\phi\Big(\frac{1}{\sqrt{1+|Du|^2}}\Big) & \text{ in }~\Omega,\\ u=0& \text{ on }~\partial \Omega, \end{cases} \] where \(\phi\in C^1([-1, 1])\) and \(a, b\in \mathbb{R}\). For \(\Omega=B(0, R)\), the paper proves that no radial solutions exist in the hyperbolic case and finds explicitly all radial solutions in the parabolic case, while in the elliptic case it gives a radial solution by contraction mapping theorem for small \(R\). Moreover, in the elliptic case the uniqueness and symmetry structure of solutions to the problem on general \(\Omega\) are achieved by the maximum principle and the moving plane method, which completely solves the problem in this situation.