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We investigate the homogeneous Dirichlet problem in uniformly convex domains for a large class of degenerate elliptic equations with singular zero order term. In particular we establish sharp existence and uniqueness results of positive viscosity solutions.
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Birindelli, I., Galise, G. The Dirichlet problem for fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations with a singular nonlinearity. Calc. Var. 58, 180 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-019-1629-6
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