TY - JOUR T1 - Starshaped Compact Hypersurfaces with Prescribed M-th Mean Curvature in Elliptic Space AU - Yanyan Li & I. Oliker Vladimir JO - Journal of Partial Differential Equations VL - 3 SP - 68 EP - 80 PY - 2002 DA - 2002/08 SN - 15 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jpde/5456.html KW - Nonlinear elliptic equations KW - Spaces of constant sectional curvature KW - Hypersurfaces with prescribed curvature functions AB - We consider the problem of finding a compact starshaped hypresurface in a space form for which the normalized m-th elementary symmetric function of principal curvatures is a prescribed function. In this paper the conditions for the existence of at least one solution to a nonlinear second order elliptic equation of that problem are established in case of a space form with positive sectional curvature.