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Title: Regularity for convex viscosity solutions of special Lagrangian equation
Abstract

We establish interior regularity for convex viscosity solutions of the special Lagrangian equation. Our result states that all such solutions are real analytic in the interior of the domain.

 
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Award ID(s):
2054973
PAR ID:
10442173
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
ISSN:
0010-3640
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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