A maximum principle for nonregular elliptic differential equations in a Hilbert space of countable dimension (Q1123320)

Let D be a domain in separable Hilbert space H, u a function on D. The author considers the second order infinite dimensional differential operator \({\mathcal L}u=j(u'')\) where j is a linear continuous functional over the selfadjoint bounded operators in H. \({\mathcal L}\) is an elliptic operator if j(C)\(\geq 0\) for all \(C\geq 0\). Under some conditions on u the author proves a maximum principle, that is if \({\mathcal L}u(x)\geq 0\), then \(\sup_{x\in D}u(x)= \sup_{x\in \partial D}u(x).\)