Boundary Regularity for Fully Nonlinear Singular Elliptic Equations

Abstract

We study boundary regularity for the fully nonlinear singular elliptic equation of the form $|Du|^γF(D^2u)=f$, where $-1<γ<0$. First, we prove pointwise boundary $C^{1,α}$ estimates with pointwise $C^{1,α}$ Dirichlet data, which weakens the $C^2$ domain smoothness requirement from Birindelli and Demengel~\cite{BD10}. The proof uses compactness and perturbation, without flattening the boundary. Second, we extend the $W^{2,δ}$ estimates of Li and Li~\cite{LiLi17} from balls to $C^{1,α}$ domains with $C^{1,α}$ Dirichlet data{, for $0<δ\leδ_0<1$. Here $δ_0$ is an exponent in the interior $W^{2,δ_0}$ estimate}. The proof combines pointwise boundary $C^{1,α}$ estimates, interior $W^{2,δ_0}$ estimates, and a Whitney decomposition.