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Regularity for convex viscosity solutions of Lagrangian mean curvature equation

  • Arunima Bhattacharya ORCID logo EMAIL logo and Ravi Shankar
Published/Copyright: September 14, 2023

Abstract

We show that convex viscosity solutions of the Lagrangian mean curvature equation are regular if the Lagrangian phase has Hölder continuous second derivatives.

Award Identifier / Grant number: DGE-1762114

Funding statement: A. Bhattacharya acknowledges the support of the AMS-Simons Travel Grant. R. Shankar was partially supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program under grant No. DGE-1762114.

Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to Yu Yuan for his guidance, support, and helpful discussions. The authors thank D. H. Phong for helpful comments and suggestions. The authors thank the anonymous referee for the referee’s thorough feedback.

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Received: 2022-09-23
Revised: 2023-07-31
Published Online: 2023-09-14
Published in Print: 2023-10-01

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