Tug-of-War games and parabolic problems with spatial and time dependence

Abstract

In this paper we use probabilistic arguments (Tug-of-War games) to obtain existence of viscosity solutions to a parabolic problem of the form \[ {cases} K_{(x,t)}(D u)u_t (x,t)= \frac12 <D^2 u J_{(x,t)}(D u),J_{(x,t)}(D u) (x,t) &{in} \Omega_T, u(x,t)=F(x)&{on}\Gamma, {cases} \] where \(\Omega_T=\Omega\times(0,T]\) and \(\Gamma\) is its parabolic boundary. This problem can be viewed as a version with spatial and time dependence of the evolution problem given by the infinity Laplacian, \( u_t (x,t)= <D^2 u (x,t) \frac{D u}{|Du|} (x,t),\, \frac{D u}{|Du|} (x,t)>\).