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# On the uniqueness of blow-up solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic equations

• This paper contains new uniqueness results of the boundary blow-up viscosity solutions of second order elliptic equations, generalizing a well known result of Marcus-Veron for the Laplace operator.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J25, 35B50; Secondary: 35D40.

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