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ABSTRACT
The thesis studies the solvability of the Dirichlet problem for nonsymmetric Monge-
Ampère equations of elliptic type in a bounded domain Ω⊂Rn. This problem had been
solved by N.S. Trudinger and his group for any dimension nin the case of symmetric
Monge-Ampère type equations and for the dimension n= 2 in the nonsymmetric case
by the tools such as: the concavity of the function log(det ω)in the domain of symmetric
positive definite matrices ωand the comparison principle for their elliptic solutions. For
0≤δ < 1,the thesis had narrowed the notion of elliptic solution by introducing the notion
of δ-elliptic solution for nonsymmetric Monge-Ampère type equations and for d≥0had
established the d-concavity for the function log(det R),defined on the unbounded convex
set Dδ,µ ⊂Rn×nthat consists of nonsymmetric positive definite matrices with skewsym-
metric parts which are small in some sense. The thesis had proved the comparison principle
for δ-elliptic solutions to nonsymmetric Monge-Ampère type equations. By following the
scheme of estimation that had been proposed by N.S. Trudinger, the thesis had established
a priori estimates in C2,α(Ω),for some α∈(0,1) for δ-elliptic solution to the Dirichlet prob-
lem, that are uniform with respect to a class of skewsymmetric matrices which are small in
some sense. A necessary condition for the skewsymmetric matrix in the equation had been
obtained to guarantee the existence of δ-elliptic solution. By applying the method of conti-
nuity for solving nonlinear operator equations in Banach spaces, the thesis had established
sufficient conditions for the unique existence of δ-elliptic solution to the Dirichlet problem
for nonsymmetric Monge-Ampère type equations in C2,α(Ω),in which the skewsymmetric
matrix in the equation is sufficiently small in some sense.