A supersolution is often used to bound the true solution from above.
上解常用来从上方约束真实解。
Using a carefully constructed supersolution, the authors prove existence of a weak solution via a comparison principle.
作者通过构造一个合适的上解,并利用比较原理证明了弱解的存在性。
Lawrence C. Evans, Partial Differential Equations(偏微分方程教材中常以 subsolution/supersolution 讨论比较原理与先验估计)
David Gilbarg & Neil S. Trudinger, Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order(二阶椭圆型方程中用上解/下解方法建立存在性与正则性结果)
Michael G. Crandall, Hitoshi Ishii & Pierre-Louis Lions, “User’s guide to viscosity solutions of second order partial differential equations” (1992)(黏性解理论中频繁使用 sub-/super-solution 术语与框架)