Remarks on the Dirichlet and state-constraint problems for quasilinear parabolic equations. (Q1413035)

The authors prove two different types of comparison results between semicontinuous viscosity sub- and supersolutions of the generalized Dirichlet problem for quasilinear parabolic equations: the first one is an extension of the strong comparison result obtained previously by the second author for annular domains, to domains with a more complicated geometry. The key point in the proof is a localization argument based on a strong maximum principle type property. The second type of comparison results concerns a mixed Dirichlet-state-constrainsts problems for quasilinear parabolic equations in annular domains without rotational symmetry; in this case, the authors do not obtain strong comparison result, but a weaker one on the envelopes of the discontinuous solutions. As a consequence of these results and the Perron's method they obtain the existence and the uniqueness of either a continuous or a discontinuous solution.