Boundary Hölder Estimates for a Class of Degenerate Elliptic Equations in Piecewise Smooth Domains

Abstract

In this paper, the authors will apply De Giorgi-Nash-Moser iteration to establish boundary Hölder estimates for a class of degenerate elliptic equations in piecewise C ²-smooth domains.

Keywords

Degenerate elliptic / De Giorgi-Nash-Moser iteration / Boundary Hölder regularity

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