Some estimates of solutions of degenerate (k,o)-elliptic equations

A class of nonlinear second-order equations of divergent form is distinguished, whose solutions have properties recalling the properties of solutions of ordinary elliptic equations. In the linear case these are equations of the form $$\sum\nolimits_{j = 1}^k \lambda _j (x)A_j^2 u + \sum\nolimits_{j = 1}^k {\mu _j (x)A_j u + c(x)u + f(x) = 0,} $$ where the \(A_j = \sum\nolimits_{\alpha = 1}^n {\alpha _j^\alpha (x)\frac{\partial }{{\partial x^\alpha }}(1 \leqslant j \leqslant k)} \) are linearly independent first-order differential operators whose Lie algebra is of rank n, 2 ? k ? n, and theλj(x) ? 0 are functions which can become0 zero or increase in a definite way. Harnack's inequality is proved for nonnegative solutions of these equations.