Interior W2,δ type estimates for degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic equations with Ln data

Abstract

We establish interior $W^{2,\delta }$ type estimates for a class of degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic equations with $L^n$ data. The main idea of our approach is to slide $C^{1,\alpha }$ cones, instead of paraboloids, vertically to touch the solution, and estimate the contact set in terms of the measure of the vertex set. This shows that the solution has tangent $C^{1,\alpha }$ cones almost everywhere, which leads to the desired Hessian estimates. Accordingly, we are able to develop a kind of counterpart to the estimates for divergent structure quasilinear elliptic problems, as discussed in [6], [16].