Maximum principles for boundary-degenerate second-order linear elliptic differential operators

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Paul M. N. Feehan;
(2012)
  • Related identifiers: doi: 10.1080/03605302.2013.831446
  • Subject: Quantitative Finance - Pricing of Securities | Mathematics - Probability | Mathematics - Analysis of PDEs | Primary 35B50, 35B51, 35J70, 35J86, 35R45, secondary 49J20, 49J40, 60J60
We prove weak and strong maximum principles, including a Hopf lemma, for smooth subsolutions to equations defined by linear, second-order, partial differential operators whose principal symbols vanish along a portion of the domain boundary. The boundary regularity prope... View more
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