Viscosity solutions of elliptic partial differential equations
Summary: In my talk and its associated paper I discuss some recent results connected with the uniqueness of viscosity solutions of nonlinear elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. By now, most researchers in partial differential equations are familiar with the definition of viscosity solution, introduced by \textit{M. G. Crandall} and \textit{P. L. Lions} in their seminal paper, ``Condition d'unicité pour les solutions generalisées des équations de Hamilton-Jacobi du premier order [C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Ser. I 292, 183-186 (1981; Zbl 0469.49023)]. Initially, the application of this definition was restricted to nonlinear first order partial differential equations -- i.e., Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations -- and it was shown that viscosity solutions satisfy a maximum principle, implying uniqueness. In 1988 an extended definition of viscosity solution was applied to second order partial differential equations, establishing a maximum principle for these solutions and a corresponding uniqueness result. In the following years numerous researchers obtained maximum principles for viscosity solutions under weaker and weaker hypotheses. However, in all of these papers it was necessary to assume some minimal modulus of spatial continuity in the nonlinear operator, depending on the regularity of the solution, and to assume either uniform ellipticity or strong monotonicity in the case of elliptic operators. The results I discuss are related to attempts to weaken these assumptions on the partial differential operators -- e.g., operators with only measurable spatial regularity, and operators with degenerate ellipticity.
- Uniqueness of viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations revisited
- Verification theorems within the framework of viscosity solutions
- Geometric restrictions for the existence of viscosity solutions
- Representation formula for viscosity solution to a PDE problem involving Pucci's extremal operator
- On viscosity and equivalent notions of solutions for anisotropic geometric equations
- Viscosity solutions for elliptics-parabolic problems
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4042408 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4086156 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1734603 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1087325 (Why is no real title available?)
- Viscosity solutions and the minimal surface system
- To the theory of viscosity solutions for uniformly elliptic Isaacs equations
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1839707 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 791171 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 935514 (Why is no real title available?)
- Viscosity solutions for doubly nonlinear evolution equations
- Axisymmetric solutions and singular parabolic equations in the theory of viscosity solutions
- Viscosity solutions defined by right differentials.
- On the independence of the value function for stochastic differential games of the probability space
- Viscosity solutions of uniformly elliptic equations without boundary and growth conditions at infinity
- Viscosity solutions to second order partial differential equations on Riemannian manifolds
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