Another way to say subsolution: The maximum principle and sums of Green functions
- Autores: R. S. Laugesen
- Localización: Mathematica scandinavica, ISSN 0025-5521, Vol. 97, Nº 1, 2005, págs. 127-153
- Idioma: inglés
- DOI: 10.7146/math.scand.a-14968
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Resumen
Consider an elliptic second order differential operator L with no zeroth order term (for example the Laplacian L=−Δ). If Lu≤0 in a domain U, then of course u satisfies the maximum principle on every subdomain V⊂U. We prove a converse, namely that Lu≤0 on U if on every subdomain V, the maximum principle is satisfied by u+v whenever v is a finite linear combination (with positive coefficients) of Green functions with poles outside V¯¯¯¯. This extends a result of Crandall and Zhang for the Laplacian. We also treat the heat equation, improving Crandall and Wang's recent result. The general parabolic case remains open.
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