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In this paper, we establish C1,α regularity up to the boundary for a class of degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic equations with Neumann boundary conditions. Our main result Theorem 2.1 constitutes the boundary analogue of the interior C1,α regularity result established in Imbert and Silvestre (Adv. Math. 233: 196–206, 2013) for equations with similar structural assumptions. The proof of our main result is achieved via compactness arguments combined with new boundary Hölder estimates for equations which are uniformly elliptic when the gradient is either small or large.
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Banerjee, A., Verma, R.B. C1,α Regularity for Degenerate Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations with Neumann Boundary Conditions. Potential Anal 57, 327–365 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11118-021-09918-z
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