Hölder regularity of the normal distance with an application to a PDE model for growing sandpiles

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-07-04259-6zbMath1115.58015MaRDI QIDQ3425955

Piermarco Cannarsa, Elena Giorgieri, Pierre Cardaliaguet

Publication date: 7 March 2007

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

singularitiesviscosity solutionsHölder continuous functionssemiconcave functionsEikonal equationnormal distance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Regularity of solutions in optimal control (49N60) Special properties of functions of several variables, Hölder conditions, etc. (26B35) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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