A three-curves theorem for viscosity subsolutions of parabolic equations

A three-curves theorem for viscosity subsolutions of parabolic equations
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by Jay Kovats

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 131 (2003), 1509-1514

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-02-06664-9

Published electronically: September 4, 2002

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We prove a three-curves theorem for viscosity subsolutions of fully nonlinear uniformly parabolic equations $F(D^{2}u,t,x)-u_{t}=0$.

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