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A remark on $C^{1,\alpha}$-regularity for differential inequalities in viscosity sense

Analysis of PDEs 2018-11-07 v2

Abstract

We prove interior C1,αC^{1,\alpha}-regularity for solutions ΛF(D2u)Λ - \Lambda \leq F(D^2 u) \leq \Lambda where Λ\Lambda is a constant and FF is fully nonlinear, 1-homogeneous, uniformly elliptic. The proof is based on a reduction to the homogeneous equation F(D2u)=0F(D^2u) = 0 by a blow-up argument -- i.e. just like what is done in the case of viscosity solutions F(D2u)=fF(D^2 u) = f for fLf \in L^\infty. However it was not clear to us that the above inequality implies F(D2u)=fF(D^2 u) = f for some bounded ff (as would be the case for linear equations in distributional sense by approximation). Nor were we able to find the literature on C1,αC^{1,\alpha}-regularity for viscosity inequalities. So we thought this result might be worth recording.

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@article{arxiv.1811.00376,
  title  = {A remark on $C^{1,\alpha}$-regularity for differential inequalities in viscosity sense},
  author = {Armin Schikorra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.00376},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

In the 'obvious' estimate in Theorem 1.2. there was an obvious mistake. Now its fixed, obviously