Harnack inequality and smoothness for quasilinear degenerate elliptic equations (Q952529)

The aim of this note is to study the local regularity of weak solutions for quasilinear degenerate elliptic equations of the following kind \[ -(a_{ij}u_{x_i}+d_ju)_{x_j}+\frac{b_0}{\lambda}\omega| Du|^2+b_iu_{x_i}+cu=f-(h_i)_{x_i},\tag{1} \] where \(x=(x_1,-,x_n)\in\Omega\)-open bounded set in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). The authors obtain regularity results by showing that positive weak solutions of (1) satisfy Harnack inequality. As a consequence of Harnack inequality the authors obtain interior and boundary Hölder continuity of the weak solutions of (1). Moreover, the authors also show \(C^{1,\alpha}\) estimtes for a nondivergence type quasilinear degenerate equation of the following kind \[ Qu=a^{ij}(x,u,Du)u_{x_ix_j}+b(x,u,Du)=0.\tag{2} \]