Gautam Neelakantan Memana

Fractional elementary symmetric functions and Hessian estimates in the plane

We prove an endpoint Pucci maximum principle for domains in $\mathbb R^2$, formulated using a generalization of elementary symmetric polynomials to noninteger orders. As a result, we sharpen an earlier result of Astala, Iwaniec and Martin, and deduce a new Sobolev inequality for $q$-Hessians where $1<q<2$. The fraction...