A microscopic convexity principle for nonlinear partial differential equations

DOI10.1007/s00222-009-0179-5zbMath1168.35010arXiv0805.0748OpenAlexW2130279413WikidataQ125273143 ScholiaQ125273143MaRDI QIDQ2390927

Pengfei Guan, Baojun Bian

Publication date: 10 August 2009

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.0748

zbMATH Keywords

maximum principlenonlinear parabolic equationsnonlinear partial differential equationsmicroscopic convexity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear initial, boundary and initial-boundary value problems for linear parabolic equations (35K60) Maximum principles in context of PDEs (35B50) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60)

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