Proof of A Viscosity Solution of the Dirichlet Problem is Continuous and Attains the Boundary Data
propositionprop:dirichlet-solution-basic-2026aEach 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.
Conventions. The order of the ordered field is a total order, so its antisymmetry is an axiom of that definition. Being a viscosity solution of the Dirichlet problem , the function is by definition both a viscosity subsolution and a viscosity supersolution of ; this is used in each of the three arguments below.
Proof of claim 1. Let . Clause Viscosity Sub- and Supersolutions and Solutions of the Dirichlet Problem §subsolution gives and clause Viscosity Sub- and Supersolutions and Solutions of the Dirichlet Problem §supersolution gives , so by antisymmetry.
Proof of claim 2. By clause Viscosity Sub- and Supersolutions and Solutions of the Dirichlet Problem §subsolution the function is a viscosity subsolution of up to the boundary of , hence upper semicontinuous on ; by clause Viscosity Sub- and Supersolutions and Solutions of the Dirichlet Problem §supersolution it is a viscosity supersolution of up to the boundary of , hence lower semicontinuous on . Let . Then is upper semicontinuous at relative to and lower semicontinuous at relative to , so claim 2 of Semicontinuity Under Negation and Characterization of Continuity gives that is continuous at relative to . As was arbitrary, claim 2 follows.
Proof of claim 3. By clause Viscosity Sub- and Supersolutions and Solutions of the Dirichlet Problem §subsolution and the definition of a subsolution up to the boundary, the restriction is a viscosity subsolution of on ; by clause Viscosity Sub- and Supersolutions and Solutions of the Dirichlet Problem §supersolution it is likewise a viscosity supersolution of on . By the definition of a viscosity solution, is a viscosity solution of on .
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