A class of fully nonlinear equations

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2019.V15.N4.A3MaRDI QIDQ2308076zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors X.-X. Chen, Weiyong He

Publication date 25 March 2020

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04985

zbMATH Keywords

a priori estimatesfully nonlinear equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05)

Abstract: In this paper we consider a class of fully nonlinear equations which cover the equation introduced by S. Donaldson a decade ago and the equation introduced by Gursky-Streets recently. We solve the equation with uniform weak $C^2$ estimates, which hold for degenerate case.

Review text

The authors establish a priori estimates for solutions of a class of boundary value problem for the fully nonlinear equation \begin{align*} u_{tt}\left( \Delta u -b\left\lvert \nabla u \right\rvert^{2} + a \left( x \right) \right) - \left\lvert \nabla u_{t}\right\rvert^{2} = f \text{ in } M \times \left(0, 1 \right), \end{align*} with the prescribed boundary conditions \begin{align*} u = u_{0} \text{ on } M \times \left\lbrace t=0 \right\rbrace \quad \text{ and } \quad u = u_{1} \text{ on } M \times \left\lbrace t=1 \right\rbrace, \end{align*} where \(M\) is a compact Riemannian manifold, \(b \geq 0\) is a constant, \(a:M \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is a positive smooth function and \(f \in C^{2}\left( M \times [0,1]\right)\) is a positive function. Using these a priori estimates, the authors employ the continuity method to show the existence of \(u \in C^{3,\beta}\left( M \times [0,1]\right)\) for any \(\beta \in [0, 1),\) solving the BVP. The estimates are a consequence of concavity of the equation, which closely parallels the Donaldson equation for a Weil-Peterson metric on the space of volume forms. The main motivation for studying this class of equations is an unified treatment of the Donaldson equation and some of the Gursky-Streets equations.

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