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Hölder behavior of viscosity solutions of some fully nonlinear equations in the Heisenberg group
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Hölder behavior of viscosity solutions of some fully nonlinear equations in the Heisenberg group

Authors

  • Fausto Ferrari https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2419-7018
  • Eugenio Vecchi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-7564

Keywords

Heisenberg group, viscosity solutions, Theorem on Sums

Abstract

In this paper we prove the $C^{0,\alpha}$ regularity of bounded and uniformly continuous viscosity solutions of some degenerate fully nonlinear equations in the first Heisenberg group.

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2020-01-19

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FERRARI, Fausto and VECCHI, Eugenio. Hölder behavior of viscosity solutions of some fully nonlinear equations in the Heisenberg group. Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis. Online. 19 January 2020. Vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 227 - 242. [Accessed 2 January 2026].
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