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The Structure Condition Implies Degenerate Ellipticity

A continuous second-order equation operator that satisfies the structure condition of the comparison principle for the Dirichlet problem is automatically degenerate elliptic, so the ellipticity hypothesis of that comparison principle is redundant. Only the openness of the domain is used.

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Throughout we work in the setting of Second-Order Equations on Euclidean Open Sets and of Bounded Open Domain in Euclidean Space, whose notation, including that of Euclidean Space and Real Matrices: Standing Notation on which the former rests, is in force in the dimension nn, a natural number with 1≤n1\le n. In addition T={t∈R:0≤t}T=\{t\in\mathbb{R}:0\le t\}.

Let FF be a second-order equation operator on Ω\Omega which is continuous, and let ω:T→R\omega:T\to\mathbb{R} be a modulus of continuity such that FF and ω\omega satisfy the structure condition of the comparison principle for the Dirichlet problem.

Then FF is degenerate elliptic.

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