Abstract: We formulate and prove a non-local ``maximum principle for semicontinuous functions'' in the setting of fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic integro-partial differential equations with integro operators of second order. Similar results have been used implicitly by several researchers to obtain comparison/uniqueness results for integro-partial differential equations, but proofs have so far been lacking.
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