Viscosity solutions, almost everywhere solutions and explicit formulas (Q4813865)

The authors consider the differential inclusion \(Du(x) \in E\), a.e. \(x\in \mathbb{R}^n\), where \(E\) is a compact set of \(\mathbb{R}^n\). They exhibit an explicit solution of the previous inclusion which is the function \(L(x)=\max\{\langle \xi,x\rangle : \xi \in E\}, x \in \mathbb{R}^n\). Then, after introducing the notion of viscosity solution for the differential inclusion, they show that the function \(L\) can be also considered as a viscosity solution. In the second part of the article, they study a Dirichlet problem associated to the previous differential inclusion and they prove the existence of a solution by successive iteration.