Skip to content

A Concavity Inequality for Hessian Quotient Equations

Yi-Lin Tsai

math.AParXiv:2608.16383

Abstract

We prove a concavity inequality for the Hessian quotient operator σk/σk-1 using a change of basis for symmetric polynomials. This removes an additional structural concavity assumption previously imposed in the interior C2 estimate for convex solutions of the σk/σk-1 equation. The method also yields several useful inequalities for elementary symmetric polynomials.

Create a lesson