$C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity for fully nonlinear elliptic equations with superlinear growth in the gradient

Abstract

We extend the Caffarelli-\'Swiech-Winter $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity estimates to $L^p$-viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic equations in nondivergence form with superlinear growth in the gradient and unbounded coefficients. As an application, in addition to the usual $W^{2,p}$ results, we prove the existence of positive eigenvalues for proper operators with nonnegative unbounded weight, in particular for Pucci's operators with unbounded coefficients.