On viscosity solutions to the Dirichlet problem for elliptic branches of inhomogeneous fully nonlinear equations (Q2405874)

The authors study a fully nonlinear partial differential equation \(F(x, D^2 u(x))=0\) with \(x\in \Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N\), where \(\Omega\) is a bounded open domain with \(C^2\) boundary, and \(F=F(x,A)\) may not be monotone in \(A\) over the entire space of symmetric matrices. The authors start introducing the concept of \textit{admissible viscosity solutions of elliptic branches}, by exploiting Krylov's general notion of ellipticity. Their main goal is to state a comparison principle for uniformly continuous elliptic maps. They identify a uniform continuity property which ensures the validity of the comparison principle and the applicability of Perron's method for differential inclusion on suitable convex domains. Then, they provide structural conditions on \(F\) ensuring the existence of an elliptic map with the required regularity. Their examples include perturbed Monge-Ampére equations and equations prescribing eigenvalues for the Hessian.