Smoothness of Lipschitz minimal intrinsic graphs in Heisenberg groups , n > 1

Abstract We prove that Lipschitz intrinsic graphs in the Heisenberg groups , with n > 1, which are vanishing viscosity solutions of the minimal surface equation, are smooth and satisfy the PDE in a strong sense.

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