“…Since then, further studies of problem (1.3) and its generalization in manifold settings have been done by many authors; see e.g. 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 (non-uniformly) elliptic problem of Hessian type.…”