A classical Perron method for existence of smooth solutions to boundary value and obstacle problems for degenerate-elliptic operators via holomorphic maps (Q2358707)

The author proves the existence of smooth solutions to boundary value and obstacle problems for degenerate linear elliptic second-order partial differential operators with partial Dirichlet boundary conditions. He uses a new version of the Perron method, which relies on weak and strong maximum principles for degenerate-elliptic operators. He deals with the boundary value problem \[ Au=f\;\text{on}\;\mathcal{O},\;u=g\;\text{on}\;\partial_1\mathcal{O} \] and the obstacle problem \[ \min\{Au-f,u-\psi\}=0\;\text{a.e. on}\;\mathcal{O},\;u=g\;\text{on}\;\partial_1\mathcal{O},\;\psi\leq g\;\text{on}\;\partial_1\mathcal{O}. \] The domain \(\mathcal{O}\subset \mathbb{H}\), \(\mathbb{H}:=\mathbb{R}^{d-1}\times \mathbb{R}_+\), \( d \geq 2\), is possibly unbounded, \(\partial_1\mathcal{O}=\partial\mathcal{O}\cap \mathbb{H}\). No boundary condition is prescribed along \(\partial\mathcal{O}\setminus \partial_1\mathcal{O}.\)