Hölder continuity of solutions of nondivergent degenerate second-order elliptic equations (Q461690)

In this paper the author studies the following second-order linear elliptic equation \[ Lu=\sum_{i=1}^n |x_i|^{\alpha_i}u_{x_ix_i}=0\,\,\qquad \text{in}\,\, D\,, \] where \(D\subset \mathbb R^n\), \(n\geq 2\), is a domain containing the origin, with the aim of finding conditions on the exponents \(\alpha_i\) that guarantee Hölder continuity of solutions of the problem in \(D\). In the main results of the paper the author proves that if \[ -\frac{1}{n-1}<\alpha_i<1\,,\,\, i=1, \dots, n\,, \] then the solutions of the equation under consideration are Hölder continuous in the domain \(D\). The proof relies on integral estimates of the Green function of a suitable problem associated with the one considered along the paper.