Propagation of maxima and strong maximum principle for viscosity solutions of degenerate elliptic equations. II: Concave operators

Indiana University Mathematics Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 607-628

  Bardi, Martino ^a   Da Lio, Francesca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Controlled diffusion; Degenerate elliptic equations; Differential game; Fully nonlinear PDEs; Hamilton Jacobi Bellman equations; Hopf boundary lemma; Propagation of maxima; Semicontinuous viscosity subsolutions; Strong Maximum Principle; Viability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042244372     PISSN: 00222518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1512/iumj.2003.52.2147     Document Type: Article

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