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What does $u^+$ mean?



Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
Planned maintenance scheduled April 17/18, 2019 at 00:00UTC (8:00pm US/Eastern)What does $(x, y) in mathbbR^2$ mean?A Question about the strong maximum principle in Evans Partial differential equationWhat does$ |x|_infty$ mean?What does this notation mean? $∂df^2 / ∂x$How does one get $u_y_ky_k(x_0)leq 0$ in the proof of the weak maximum principle?Example for $max_overlineU u<max_partial U max(u,0)$ in the statement of weak maximum principleWhat does it mean to say an ODE state vector is finite dimensional?What does $nabla_L$ mean?What does $langleoverline4rangle$ mean?What does $|D^alpha u|$ and $|D^alpha u|$ mean in Evans' PDE book?










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I see the following statement in Evans' book on PDEs:




If $Luleq 0$ in $U$, then $$max_overlineU u=max_partialoverlineU u^+$$




What does $u^+$ mean? Is it the set of points where $u$ is positive?










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    It is the positive part of $u$, $maxu,0$.
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    @GReyes- Thanks so much!
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$begingroup$


I see the following statement in Evans' book on PDEs:




If $Luleq 0$ in $U$, then $$max_overlineU u=max_partialoverlineU u^+$$




What does $u^+$ mean? Is it the set of points where $u$ is positive?










share|cite|improve this question











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  • $begingroup$
    It is the positive part of $u$, $maxu,0$.
    $endgroup$
    – GReyes
    Apr 1 at 0:57










  • $begingroup$
    @GReyes- Thanks so much!
    $endgroup$
    – fierydemon
    Apr 1 at 0:59













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$begingroup$


I see the following statement in Evans' book on PDEs:




If $Luleq 0$ in $U$, then $$max_overlineU u=max_partialoverlineU u^+$$




What does $u^+$ mean? Is it the set of points where $u$ is positive?










share|cite|improve this question











$endgroup$




I see the following statement in Evans' book on PDEs:




If $Luleq 0$ in $U$, then $$max_overlineU u=max_partialoverlineU u^+$$




What does $u^+$ mean? Is it the set of points where $u$ is positive?







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  • $begingroup$
    It is the positive part of $u$, $maxu,0$.
    $endgroup$
    – GReyes
    Apr 1 at 0:57










  • $begingroup$
    @GReyes- Thanks so much!
    $endgroup$
    – fierydemon
    Apr 1 at 0:59
















  • $begingroup$
    It is the positive part of $u$, $maxu,0$.
    $endgroup$
    – GReyes
    Apr 1 at 0:57










  • $begingroup$
    @GReyes- Thanks so much!
    $endgroup$
    – fierydemon
    Apr 1 at 0:59















$begingroup$
It is the positive part of $u$, $maxu,0$.
$endgroup$
– GReyes
Apr 1 at 0:57




$begingroup$
It is the positive part of $u$, $maxu,0$.
$endgroup$
– GReyes
Apr 1 at 0:57












$begingroup$
@GReyes- Thanks so much!
$endgroup$
– fierydemon
Apr 1 at 0:59




$begingroup$
@GReyes- Thanks so much!
$endgroup$
– fierydemon
Apr 1 at 0:59










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