User’s guide to viscosity solutions of second order partial differential equations

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-1992-00266-5zbMATH Open0755.35015arXivmath/9207212OpenAlexW2032316144WikidataQ57256871 ScholiaQ57256871MaRDI QIDQ4016740FDOQ4016740

Authors: Hitoshi Ishii, P.-L. Lions, Michael G. Crandall 

Publication date: 16 January 1993

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

Abstract: The notion of viscosity solutions of scalar fully nonlinear partial differential equations of second order provides a framework in which startling comparison and uniqueness theorems, existence theorems, and theorems about continuous dependence may now be proved by very efficient and striking arguments. The range of important applications of these results is enormous. This article is a self-contained exposition of the basic theory of viscosity solutions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9207212

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zbMATH Keywords

dynamic programmingHamilton-Jacobi equationsfully nonlinear equationsPerron's method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Maximum principles in context of PDEs (35B50) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Nonlinear first-order PDEs (35F20) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Initial value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K15) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K20) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65) Viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations in optimal control and differential games (49L25)

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