Existence of viscosity solutions for Hessian equations in exterior domains

Abstract

The Perron method is used to establish the existence of viscosity solutions to the exterior Dirichlet problems for a class of Hessian type equations with prescribed behavior at infinity.

Keywords

Hessian equation / viscosity solution / exterior domain

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