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This paper provides an overview of some more or less recent results concerning the validity of the weak Maximum Principle for fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations. Special attention is devoted to the presentation of sufficient conditions relating the directions of degeneracy and the geometry of the possibly unbounded domain.
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Capuzzo Dolcetta, I. (2019). On the Weak Maximum Principle for Degenerate Elliptic Operators. In: Alabau-Boussouira, F., Ancona, F., Porretta, A., Sinestrari, C. (eds) Trends in Control Theory and Partial Differential Equations. Springer INdAM Series, vol 32. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17949-6_5
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