Proof of Existence of a Bounded, Uniformly Continuous Viscosity Solution on a Hilbert Triple
theoremthm:bounded-uniformly-continuous-solution-hilbert-triple-2026bThe constants are classical and hence viscosity sub- and supersolutions, Perron's method gives a bounded solution, the comparison principle applied to its envelopes gives uniform continuity on V, and the extension and trace lemmas produce the uniformly continuous solution on H.
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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