Proof of Existence of a Bounded, Uniformly Continuous Viscosity Solution on a Hilbert Triple
theoremthm:bounded-uniformly-continuous-solution-hilbert-triple-2026aThe two constants are classical, hence viscosity, sub- and supersolutions; Perron's method produces a solution between them; the comparison principle applied to that solution against itself makes its restriction to V uniformly continuous; the extension lemma carries it to the whole space, and the values off V do not affect the viscosity property.
Each result cited is universally quantified over the data in its own statement. The set is nonempty, since it contains .
Step 1 (the two constants are classical, hence viscosity, sub- and supersolutions). Let be the functions with constant values and . By Constants, Sums, Scalar Multiples and Differences of Differentiable Functions on an Open Subset of a Real Inner Product Space §constant both belong to , and at every their gradients are and their Hessians are the zero form of . For the restriction to of the zero form of has value at every pair of elements of , hence is . Since , the hypothesis therefore gives
so is a classical subsolution of on , and likewise for every , so is a classical supersolution of on . As is degenerate elliptic, Classical Sub- and Supersolutions of a Degenerate Elliptic Equation on a Hilbert Triple are Viscosity Sub- and Supersolutions §subsolution shows that is a viscosity subsolution of on and Classical Sub- and Supersolutions of a Degenerate Elliptic Equation on a Hilbert Triple are Viscosity Sub- and Supersolutions §supersolution shows that is a viscosity supersolution of on .
Step 2 (Perron's method). Since we have for every . By Basic Properties of the -Envelopes: Semicontinuity, Duality, Closed Superlevel Sets, Bounds and Monotonicity §bound the bound makes bounded below near each point of , and the bound makes bounded above near each point of . Let and be the family and the function of Perron's Method on a Hilbert Triple: Existence of a Viscosity Solution Between a Subsolution and a Supersolution for the data , and on . By Perron's Method on a Hilbert Triple: Existence of a Viscosity Solution Between a Subsolution and a Supersolution §bounds we have and for every , and by Perron's Method on a Hilbert Triple: Existence of a Viscosity Solution Between a Subsolution and a Supersolution §solution the function is a viscosity solution of on .
Step 3 (the restriction of to is uniformly continuous). By Viscosity Subsolution, Supersolution and Solution of a Second-Order Equation on a Hilbert Triple §solution the function is both a viscosity subsolution and a viscosity supersolution of on , and by Step 2 it satisfies and for every . Let be positive. Applying A Comparison Principle on a Hilbert Triple under the First-Order Structure Condition §uniform with in the role of both the subsolution and the supersolution, with the constant and with the positive number , we obtain a positive such that all with satisfy . For such and the symmetry of the metric gives , so also , and claim 6 of Properties of the Absolute Value in an Ordered Field yields
Let be the restriction of to . Since every with satisfy , the display shows that witnesses the condition of uniform continuity for ; as was an arbitrary positive real, is uniformly continuous on .
Step 4 (extension to and conclusion). The subspace is nonempty and dense in by Hilbert Triples: Standing Notation and Background §triple. By Extension of a Uniformly Continuous Real Function from a Dense Subset §existence, applied in the metric space with the dense subset and the function , there is a function that is uniformly continuous on , continuous on , and satisfies for every . Uniform continuity is property 3.
By Step 2 and claim 6 of Properties of the Absolute Value in an Ordered Field, for every , so for every ; since is continuous on , Extension of a Uniformly Continuous Real Function from a Dense Subset §bounds gives for every , which is property 2.
Finally, and for every give, again by claim 6 of Properties of the Absolute Value in an Ordered Field, the bounds and on , so by Basic Properties of the -Envelopes: Semicontinuity, Duality, Closed Superlevel Sets, Bounds and Monotonicity §bound both and are bounded above near each point of and bounded below near each point of . The two functions agree on , and is a viscosity solution of on by Step 2, so The Viscosity Property Depends Only on the Values on the Trace of §solution shows that is a viscosity solution of on , which is property 1.
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