On quasilinear Beltrami-type equations with degeneration

We consider the solvability problem for the equation $f_{\bar z} $ = v(z, f(z))f _z , where the function v(z,w) of two variables may be close to unity. Such equations are called quasilinear Beltrami-type equations with ellipticity degeneration. We prove that, under some rather general conditions on v(z,w), the above equation has a regular homeomorphic solution in the Sobolev classW _loc ^1,1 . Moreover, such solutions f satisfy the inclusion f ^?1 ∈ W _loc ^1,2 .