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Here we provide a uniqueness result for viscosity solutions to sub-Riemannian mean curvature flow. In this setting the uniqueness cannot be deduced via comparison principle, which is known only for graphs and for radially symmetric…
Given a Carnot-Carath\'eodory metric space $(R^n, d_{\hbox{cc}})$ generated by vector fields $\{X_i\}_{i=1}^m$ satisfying H\"ormander's condition, we prove in theorem A that any absolute minimizer $u\in W^{1,\infty}_{\hbox{cc}}(\Om)$ to…
In this article, we prove the uniqueness of viscosity solutions to $\mathcal{L}_{\infty} u =f$ in $\Omega$, where $\mathcal{L}_{\infty}$ denotes the nonlocal infinity Laplace operator, $\Omega$ a bounded domain, and $f$ a continuous…
We prove that viscosity solutions of geometric equations in step two Carnot groups can be equivalently reformulated by restricting the set of test functions at the singular points. These are characteristic points for the level sets of the…
By employing a Carnot parabolic maximum principle, we show existence-uniqueness of viscosity solutions to a class of equations modeled on the parabolic infinite Laplace equation in Carnot groups. We show stability of solutions within the…
We prove comparison, uniqueness and existence results for viscosity solutions to a wide class of fully nonlinear second order partial differential equations $F(x, u, du, d^{2}u)=0$ defined on a finite-dimensional Riemannian manifold $M$.…
We prove H\"older continuous regularity of bounded, uniformly continuous, viscosity solutions of degenerate fully nonlinear equations defined in all of $\mathbb{R}^n$ space. In particular the result applies also to some operators in Carnot…
We show the existence of continuous viscosity solutions to the equation describing the flow of a graph in the Carnot group G x R according to its horizontal Gauss curvature. In doing so, we prove a comparison principle for degenerate…
Here we study the nonnegative solutions of the viscous Hamilton-Jacobi problem \[ \left\{\begin{array} [c]{c}% u_{t}-\nu\Delta u+|\nabla u|^{q}=0, u(0)=u_{0}, \end{array} \right. \] in $Q_{\Omega,T}=\Omega\times\left(0,T\right) ,$ where…
This article is concerned with a class of elliptic equations on Carnot groups depending of one real positive parameter and involving a critical nonlinearity. As a special case of our results we prove the existence of at least one nontrivial…
A comparison theorem is proved for a pair of solutions that satisfy in a weak sense opposite differential inequalities with nonlinearity of the form $f (u)$ with $f$ belonging to the class $L^p_{loc}$. The solutions are assumed to have…
In this work, we show existence and uniqueness of positive solutions of $H(Du, D^2u)+\chi(t)|Du|^\Gamma-f(u)u_t=$ in $\Omega\times(0, T)$ and $u=h$ on its parabolic boundary. The operator $H$ satisfies certain homogeneity conditions,…
This article concerns a class of elliptic equations on Carnot groups depending on one real positive parameter and involving a subcritical nonlinearity (for the critical case we refer to G. Molica Bisci and D. Repov\v{s}, Yamabe-type…
We consider a class of stationary viscous Hamilton--Jacobi equations as $$ \left\{\begin{array}{l} \la u-{\rm div}(A(x) \nabla u)=H(x,\nabla u)\mbox{in }\Omega, u=0{on}\partial\Omega\end{array} \right. $$ where $\la\geq 0$, $A(x)$ is a…
We show that a viscosity solution of a uniformly elliptic, fully nonlinear equation which vanishes on an open set must be identically zero, provided that the equation is $C^{1,1}$. We do not assume that the nonlinearity is convex or…
We present two comparison principles for viscosity sub- and supersolutions of Monge-Ampere-type equations associated to a family of vector fields. In particular, we obtain the uniqueness of a viscosity solution to the Dirichlet problem for…
We establish a comparison principle for viscosity subsolutions and supersolutions of a broad class of second-order quasilinear, maximally subelliptic PDEs on general manifolds. In fact, we prove the comparison theorem for a larger class of…
In this manuscript, we prove existence of viscosity solutions to singular parabolic equations in Carnot groups. We develop the analysis by constructing appropriate deterministic games adapted to the algebraic and differential structures of…
The paper treats second order fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations having a family of subunit vector fields satisfying a full-rank bracket condition. It studies Liouville properties for viscosity sub- and supersolutions in the…
We establish the interior $C^{1,\alpha}$-estimate for viscosity solutions of degenerate/singular fully nonlinear parabolic equations $$u_t = |Du|^{\gamma}F(D^2u) + f.$$ For this purpose, we prove the well-posedness of the regularized…