A simple proof of a strong comparison principle for semicontinuous viscosity solutions of the prescribed mean curvature equation

DOI10.1016/j.na.2018.11.010zbMath1414.35096arXiv1806.03587OpenAlexW2962883125MaRDI QIDQ2414212

Masaki Ohnuma, Shigeru Sakaguchi

Publication date: 10 May 2019

Published in: Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods \& Applications. Series A: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03587

zbMATH Keywords

strong comparison principleprescribed mean curvature equationsemicontinuous viscosity solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Viscosity solutions to PDEs (35D40) Quasilinear elliptic equations with mean curvature operator (35J93) Comparison principles in context of PDEs (35B51)

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