Fields Colloquium

Event Information Interior C^2 estimate for Hessian quotient equations
14:00 on Monday April 29, 2024
15:00 on Monday April 29, 2024
Stewart Library, Fields Institute, 222 College St.
Siyuan Lu
https://sites.google.com/view/siyuanlu
McMaster University

In this talk, I will first review the history of interior C^2 estimate for fully nonlinear equations. As a matter of fact, only very few equations were shown to have such properties. Even the Monge-Ampere equations for dimension three and higher do not have interior C^2 estimate due to the famous example by Pogorelov.

In the second part, I will discuss my recent work on interior C^2 estimate for Hessian quotient equations. Such equations have deep connections with Monge-Ampere equations, Hessian equations as well as special Lagrangian equations. I will then discuss the main ideas behind the proof. The new method we adopted to prove interior C^2 estimate has independent interest and can be used in other settings.