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On the notion of boundary conditions in comparison principles for viscosity solutions

Numerical Analysis 2018-12-18 v1

Abstract

We collect examples of boundary-value problems of Dirichlet and Dirichlet-Neumann type which we found instructive when designing and analysing numerical methods for fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations. In particular, our model problem is the Monge-Amp\`ere equation, which is treated through its equivalent reformulation as a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation. Our examples illustrate how the different notions of boundary conditions appearing in the literature may admit different sets of viscosity sub- and supersolutions. We then discuss how these examples relate to the validity of comparison principles for these different notions of boundary conditions.

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@article{arxiv.1703.07313,
  title  = {On the notion of boundary conditions in comparison principles for viscosity solutions},
  author = {Max Jensen and Iain Smears},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.07313},
  year   = {2018}
}