Evans, Lawrence C.; Friedman, Avner Optimal stochastic switching and the Dirichlet problem for the Bellman equation. (English) Zbl 0425.35046 Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 253, 365-389 (1979). Page: −5 −4 −3 −2 −1 ±0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 Show Scanned Page Cited in 1 ReviewCited in 62 Documents MSC: 35J60 Nonlinear elliptic equations 49J20 Existence theories for optimal control problems involving partial differential equations 49J40 Variational inequalities 35J25 Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations 47H05 Monotone operators and generalizations 47J05 Equations involving nonlinear operators (general) 60H10 Stochastic ordinary differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) 93E20 Optimal stochastic control Keywords:optimal stochastic switching; Bellman equation; second order elliptic operators; nonlinear elliptic equations PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{L. C. Evans} and \textit{A. Friedman}, Trans. Am. Math. 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