# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

September  2012, 11(5): 1911-1922. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2012.11.1911

## On the characteristic curvature operator

 1 Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, Hill Center for the Mathematical Sciences, 110 Frelinghuysen Rd., Piscataway 08854-8019 NJ, United States

Received  May 2011 Revised  September 2011 Published  March 2012

We introduce the Characteristic Curvature as the curvature of the trajectories of the Hamiltonian vector field with respect to the normal direction to the isoenergetic surfaces; by using the Second Fundamental Form we relate it to the Classical and Levi Mean Curvature. Then we prove existence and uniqueness of viscosity solutions for the related Dirichlet problem and we show the Lipschitz regularity of the solutions under suitable hypotheses. At the end we show that neither Strong Comparison Principle nor Hopf Lemma hold for the Characteristic Curvature Operator.
Citation: Vittorio Martino. On the characteristic curvature operator. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2012, 11 (5) : 1911-1922. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2012.11.1911
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