Comparison principle for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear, degenerate elliptic equations

Communications in Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1209-1224

  Kawohl, B ^a   Kutev, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND INFORMATICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Comparison principle; Degenerate elliptic equation; Fully nonlinear elliptic equation; Perron method; Viscosity solution

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548299541     PISSN: 03605302     EISSN: 15324133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03605300601113043     Document Type: Article

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