# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

May  2013, 33(5): 1975-1986. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.1975

## Two problems related to prescribed curvature measures

 1 Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China, China

Received  March 2012 Revised  September 2012 Published  December 2012

Existence of convex body with prescribed generalized curvature measures is discussed, this result is obtained by making use of Guan-Li-Li's innovative techniques. Moreover, we promote Ivochkina's $C^2$ estimates for prescribed curvature equation in [12,13].
Citation: Yong Huang, Lu Xu. Two problems related to prescribed curvature measures. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2013, 33 (5) : 1975-1986. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.1975
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