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Hessian estimates for Lagrangian mean curvature equation

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In this paper, we derive a priori interior Hessian estimates for the Lagrangian mean curvature equation if the Lagrangian phase is supercritical and has bounded second derivatives.

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The author is grateful to Yu Yuan for his guidance, support, and many useful discussions. The author is grateful to Ravi Shankar and Micah Warren for helpful comments.

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Bhattacharya, A. Hessian estimates for Lagrangian mean curvature equation. Calc. Var. 60, 224 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-021-02097-0

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