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HÖLDER ESTIMATES FOR A CLASS OF DEGENERATE ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS

  • SONG Qiao-Zhen ,
  • WANG Li-He ,
  • LI Dong-Sheng
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  • College of Science, Xi´an Jiaotong University, Xi´an 710049, China
    College of Mathematics, Luoyang Normal University, Luoyang 471022, China|Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa, IA 52246, USA|College of Science, Xi´an Jiaotong University, Xi´an 710049, China

Received date: 2010-04-07

  Revised date: 2012-11-28

  Online published: 2013-07-20

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The third author was supported by the NSF of China (10771166).

Abstract

In this paper we study the regularity theory of the solutions of a class of degenerate elliptic equations in divergence form. By introducing a proper distance and applying the compactness method we establish the H¨older type estimates for the weak solutions.

Cite this article

SONG Qiao-Zhen , WANG Li-He , LI Dong-Sheng . HÖLDER ESTIMATES FOR A CLASS OF DEGENERATE ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2013 , 33(4) : 1202 -1218 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(13)60074-0

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