A microscopic convexity principle for nonlinear partial differential equations

DOI10.1007/S00222-009-0179-5zbMATH Open1168.35010arXiv0805.0748OpenAlexW2130279413WikidataQ125273143 ScholiaQ125273143MaRDI QIDQ2390927FDOQ2390927

Pengfei Guan, Baojun Bian

Publication date: 10 August 2009

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

Abstract: We establish a microscopic convexity principle for nonlinear elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations in general form.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

maximum principlenonlinear partial differential equationsnonlinear parabolic equationsmicroscopic convexity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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