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If you have a second order elliptic equation but the coefficients of the second order terms only form a nonnegative (instead of positive definite) matrix, then, do you know if there is any literature about this? (For example, the matrix of the second order terms can be diag{1,1,0,0} )

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    – tergi
    Commented Jul 11, 2012 at 16:05

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They are called degenerate elliptic equations.

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