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On elliptic Monge-Ampère Equations and Weyl’s embedding problem

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Heinz, E. On elliptic Monge-Ampère Equations and Weyl’s embedding problem. J. Anal. Math. 7, 1–52 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02787679

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