Recent developments in elliptic partial differential equations of Monge-Ampere type

In conjunction with applications to optimal transportation and conformal geometry, there has been considerable research activity in recent years devoted to fully nonlinear, elliptic second order partial differential equations of a particular form, given by functions of the Hessian plus a lower order matrix function. Regularity is determined through the behaviour of this function with respect to the gradient variables. We present a selection of second derivative estimates and indicate briefly their application to optimal transportation and conformal deformation of Riemannian manifolds. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000). Primary 35J60, 35J65; Secondary 53A30.

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