Degenerate parabolic PDEs with discontinuities and generalized evolutions of surfaces (Q1906688)

It is considered the degenerate parabolic equation \[ u_t+ F(Du(x, t), D^2 u(x, t))= 0\quad\text{in}\quad Q_T\equiv \Omega\times (0, T),\quad \Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n\tag{1} \] where \(F(p, X)\) having discontinuities in a continuum of directions of \(p\)'s. Existence and uniqueness of a viscosity solution of the Cauchy problem to (1) is proved. For viscosity solutions of (1) are established comparison theorem both for bounded and for unbounded domains \(\Omega\). These results give a chance to define the generalized evolution of sets by the map \(E_t\) such that \(E_t(\Gamma_0, D^+_0, D^-_0)= (\Gamma_t, D^+_t, D^-_t)\), where \(\Gamma_t= \{x\in \mathbb{R}^2: u(x, t)= 0\}\), \(D^\pm_t= \{x\in \mathbb{R}^n: \pm u(x, t)> 0\}\). The work is illustrated by two examples with discontinuities which arise in the level set approach to evolutions of surfaces.