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2013, 2013(special): 771-780. doi: 10.3934/proc.2013.2013.771

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

 1 Department of Mathematics, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy, Italy, Italy

Received  September 2012 Revised  December 2012 Published  November 2013

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.
Citation: Antonio Vitolo, Maria E. Amendola, Giulio Galise. On the uniqueness of blow-up solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic equations. Conference Publications, 2013, 2013 (special) : 771-780. doi: 10.3934/proc.2013.2013.771
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