On the characteristic curvature operator

DOI10.3934/CPAA.2012.11.1911MaRDI QIDQ1948014zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vittorio Martino

Publication date 30 April 2013

Published in Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1515

zbMATH Keywords

viscosity solutionscharacteristic direction for hypersurfacesquasilinear degenerate elliptic PDEs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Viscosity solutions to PDEs (35D40) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations in optimal control and differential games (49L25)

Abstract: We introduce the Characteristic Curvature as the curvature of the trajectories of the hamiltonian vector field with respect to the normal direction to the isoenergetic surfaces and by using the Second Fundamental Form we relate it to the Classical and Levi Mean Curvature. Then we prove existence and uniqueness of viscosity solutions for the related Dirichlet problem and we show the Lipschitz regularity of the solutions under suitable hypotheses. Moreover we prove a non existence result on the balls when the prescribed curvature is a positive constant. At the end we show that neither Strong Comparison Principle nor Hopf Lemma do hold for the Characteristic Curvature Operator.

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