Remarks on the Dirichlet and State-Constraint Problems
for Quasilinear Parabolic Equations
Guy Barles and Francesca Da Lio
We prove two different types of comparison results between
semicontinuous viscosity sub- and supersolutions of the generalized
Dirichlet problem (in the sense of viscosity solutions theory) for
quasilinear parabolic equations: the first one is an extension of the
Strong Comparison Result obtained previously by the second author for
annular domains, to domains with a more complicated geometry. The key
point in the proof is a localization argument based on a ``strong
maximum principle'' type property. The second type of comparison
result concerns a mixed Dirichlet-State-constraints problems for
quasilinear parabolic equations in annular domains without rotational
symmetry ; in this case, we do not obtain a Strong Comparison Result
but a weaker one on the envelopes of the discontinuous solutions. As a
consequence of these results and the Perron's method we obtain the
existence and the uniqueness of either a continuous or a
discontinuous solution.