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Each assertion is read off from the two defining clauses: the boundary inequalities pinch by antisymmetry, the two semicontinuity properties combine into continuity, and the two interior properties combine into a viscosity solution.

Proof

Conventions. The order ≤\le of the ordered field R\mathbb{R} is a total order, so its antisymmetry is an axiom of that definition. Being a viscosity solution of the Dirichlet problem (F,g)(F,g), the function uu is by definition both a viscosity subsolution and a viscosity supersolution of (F,g)(F,g); this is used in each of the three arguments below.

Proof of claim 1. Let x∈∂Ωx\in\partial\Omega. Clause Viscosity Sub- and Supersolutions and Solutions of the Dirichlet Problem (i) gives u(x)≤g(x)u(x)\le g(x) and clause Viscosity Sub- and Supersolutions and Solutions of the Dirichlet Problem (ii) gives g(x)≤u(x)g(x)\le u(x), so u(x)=g(x)u(x)=g(x) by antisymmetry.

Proof of claim 2. By clause Viscosity Sub- and Supersolutions and Solutions of the Dirichlet Problem (i) the function uu is a viscosity subsolution of FF up to the boundary of Ω\Omega, hence upper semicontinuous on Ω‾\overline{\Omega}; by clause Viscosity Sub- and Supersolutions and Solutions of the Dirichlet Problem (ii) it is a viscosity supersolution of FF up to the boundary of Ω\Omega, hence lower semicontinuous on Ω‾\overline{\Omega}. Let x∈Ω‾x\in\overline{\Omega}. Then uu is upper semicontinuous at xx relative to Ω‾\overline{\Omega} and lower semicontinuous at xx relative to Ω‾\overline{\Omega}, so claim 2 of Semicontinuity Under Negation and Characterization of Continuity gives that uu is continuous at xx relative to Ω‾\overline{\Omega}. As xx was arbitrary, claim 2 follows.

Proof of claim 3. By clause Viscosity Sub- and Supersolutions and Solutions of the Dirichlet Problem (i) and the definition of a subsolution up to the boundary, the restriction u∣Ωu|_{\Omega} is a viscosity subsolution of FF on Ω\Omega; by clause Viscosity Sub- and Supersolutions and Solutions of the Dirichlet Problem (ii) it is likewise a viscosity supersolution of FF on Ω\Omega. By the definition of a viscosity solution, u∣Ωu|_{\Omega} is a viscosity solution of FF on Ω\Omega. ■\blacksquare

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