Existence Issues for a Large Class of Degenerate Elliptic Equations with Nonlinear Hamiltonians

For degenerate elliptic equations with a nonlinear gradient term H, in bounded uniformly convex domains Ω, we give sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of solutions in terms of the size of Ω, of the forcing term f and of H. The results apply to a wide class of equations, having as principal part significant examples, e.g. linear degenerate operators, weighted partial trace operators and the homogeneous Monge-Ampère operator.