The horospherical $p$-Christoffel-Minkowski problem in hyperbolic space

Abstract

The horospherical $p$-Christoffel-Minkowski problem was posed by Li and Xu (2022) as a problem prescribing the $k$-th horospherical $p$-surface area measure of $h$-convex domains in hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}$. It is a natural generalization of the classical $L^p$ Christoffel-Minkowski problem in the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. In this paper, we consider a fully nonlinear equation associated with the horospherical $p$-Christoffel-Minkowski problem. We establish the existence of a uniformly $h$-convex solution under appropriate assumptions on the prescribed function. The key to the proof is the full rank theorem, which we will demonstrate using a viscosity approach based on the idea of Bryan-Ivaki-Scheuer (2023). When $p=0$, the horospherical $p$-Christoffel-Minkowski problem in $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}$ is equivalent to a Nirenberg-type problem on $\mathbb{S}^n$ in conformal geometry. Therefore, our result implies the existence of solutions to the Nirenberg-type problem.