# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

December  2019, 39(12): 6865-6876. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019235

## Regularity results for the equation $u_{11}u_{22} = 1$

 1 410C Rowland Hall, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-3875, USA 2 Department of Mathematics, Columbia University, 2990 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA

* Corresponding author: Ovidiu Savin

Received  July 2018 Revised  October 2018 Published  June 2019

Fund Project: C. Mooney was supported by NSF grant DMS-1501152 and ERC grant "Regularity and Stability in Partial Differential Equations" (RSPDE). O. Savin was supported by NSF grant DMS-1500438.

We study the equation $u_{11}u_{22} = 1$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Our results include an interior $C^2$ estimate, classical solvability of the Dirichlet problem, and the existence of non-quadratic entire solutions. We also construct global singular solutions to the analogous equation in higher dimensions. At the end we state some open questions.

Citation: Connor Mooney, Ovidiu Savin. Regularity results for the equation $u_{11}u_{22} = 1$. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2019, 39 (12) : 6865-6876. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019235
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