The comparsion principle for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear subelliptic equations in Carnot groups

Publication date: 4 September 2003

Abstract: For any Carnot group

and a bounded domain

, we prove that viscosity solutions in

of the fully nonlinear subelliptic equation

F (u, a b l a_{h} u, a b l a_{h}^{2} u) = 0

are unique when

F i n C (R i m e s R^{m} i m e s C a l S (m))

satisfies (i)

F

is degenerate subelliptic and decreasing in

u

or (ii)

F

is uniformly subelliptic and nonincreasing in

u

. This extends Jensen's uniqueness theorem from the Euclidean space to the sub-Riemannian setting of the Carnot group.

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