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In this paper, we mainly establish the existence and uniqueness theorem for solutions of the exterior Dirichlet problem for a class of fully nonlinear second-order elliptic equations related to the eigenvalues of the Hessian, with prescribed generalized symmetric asymptotic behavior at infinity. Moreover, we give its applications to the Hessian equations, Hessian quotient equations and the special Lagrangian equations, which have been studied previously.
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Jiang, T., Li, H. & Li, X. On the exterior Dirichlet problem for a class of fully nonlinear elliptic equations. Calc. Var. 60, 17 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-020-01904-4
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