AbstractIn this paper, we establish a local regularity result for $$W^{2,p}_{{\mathrm {loc}}}$$
W
loc
2
,
p
solutions to complex degenerate nonlinear elliptic equations $$F(D^2_{\mathbb {C}}u)=f$$
F
(
D
C
2
u
)
=
f
when they dominate the Monge–Ampère equation. Notably, we apply our result to the so-called k-Monge–Ampère equation.