Existence issues for a large class of degenerate elliptic equations with nonlinear Hamiltonians

Abstract

We give sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness, in bounded uniformly convex domains $\Omega$, of solutions of degenerate elliptic equations depending also on the nonlinear gradient term $H$, in term of the size of $\Omega$, of the forcing term $f$ and of $H$. The results apply to a wide class of equations, having as principal part significant examples, e.g. linear degenerate operators, weighted partial trace operators and the homogeneous Monge-Ampère operator.

25 pages