C1,α Regularity of Viscosity Solutions of Fully Nonlinear Elliptic PDE Under Natural Structure Conditions

Abstract

In this paper we are concemed with fully nonlinear elliptic equation F(x, u, Du, D²u) = 0. We establish the interior Lipschitz continuity and C^{1,α} regularity of viscosity solutions under natural structure conditions without differentiating the equation as usual, especially we give a new analytic Harnack inequality approach to C^{1,α} estimate for viscosity solutions instead of the geometric approach given by L. Caffarelli \& L. Wang and improve their results. Our structure conditions are rather mild.