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Viscosity solutions of general viscous Hamilton–Jacobi equations

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We present comparison principles, Lipschitz estimates and study state constraints problems for degenerate, second-order Hamilton–Jacobi equations.

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S. Armstrong thanks the Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik (FIM) of ETH Zürich for support. H. Tran is supported in part by NSF Grant DMS-1361236.

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Armstrong, S.N., Tran, H.V. Viscosity solutions of general viscous Hamilton–Jacobi equations. Math. Ann. 361, 647–687 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-014-1088-5

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