“…For 1 ⩽ 𝑘 ⩽ 𝑛, let 𝜎 𝑘 ∶ ℝ 𝑛 → ℝ be the 𝑘th elementary symmetric function 𝜎 𝑘 (𝜆) = ∑ This problem was first studied in the classical paper of Loewner and Nirenberg [28] where, among other results, the existence of a unique smooth positive solution was proved when the boundary of Ω is smooth and compact. Since then, further studies of problem (1.3) and its generalization in manifold settings have been done by many authors; see, for example, Allen, Isenberg, Lee, and Allen [1], Andersson, Chruściel, and Friedrich [3], Aviles [4], Aviles and McOwen [5], Finn [9], Gover and Waldron [13], Graham [14], Han, Jiang, and Shen [19], Han and Shen [20], Jiang [21], Mazzeo [30], Véron [35], and the references therein. When 2 ⩽ 𝑘 ⩽ 𝑛, the 𝜎 𝑘 -Loewner-Nirenberg problem (1.1)-(1.2) is a fully nonlinear (nonuniformly) elliptic problem of Hessian type.…”