Maximum Principle
There are many variants of the maximum principle. We give a simple one.
Theorem. (Weak maximum principle.) Let, and assume that . Say that in . Then . In other words, the maximum is attained on the boundary.
A strong maximum principle would conclude that for all unless is constant.
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