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Maximal and minimal solutions of an Aronsson equation: $L^{\infty}$ variational problems versus the game theory

Analysis of PDEs 2009-06-04 v1

Abstract

The Dirichlet problem {ΔuDu2=0on Ω\RsetnuΩ=g \begin{cases} \Delta_{\infty}u-|Du|^2=0 \quad \text{on $\Omega\subset \Rset ^n$} u|_{\partial \Omega}=g \end{cases} might have many solutions, where Δu=1i,jnuxiuxjuxixj\Delta_{\infty}u=\sum_{1\leq i,j\leq n}u_{x_i}u_{x_j}u_{x_ix_j}. In this paper, we prove that the maximal solution is the unique absolute minimizer for H(p,z)=12p2zH(p,z)={1\over 2}|p|^2-z from calculus of variations in LL^{\infty} and the minimal solution is the continuum value function from the "tug-of-war" game. We will also characterize graphes of solutions which are neither an absolute minimizer nor a value function. A remaining interesting question is how to interpret those intermediate solutions. Most of our approaches are based on an idea of Barles-Busca [BB].

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@article{arxiv.0906.0625,
  title  = {Maximal and minimal solutions of an Aronsson equation: $L^{\infty}$ variational problems versus the game theory},
  author = {Yifeng Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.0625},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

To appear in "Cal. Var. Partial Differential Equations."