Comparison Principles for the Finsler Infinity Laplacian with Applications to Minimal Lipschitz Extensions

This paper proves comparison principles for elliptic PDE involving the Finsler infinity Laplacian, a second-order differential operator with discontinuities in the gradient variable arising in L∞-variational problems and tug-of-war games. The core of the paper consists in proving generalized cone comparison principles. Among other consequences, these results imply that, for any Finsler norm φ in Rᵈ, a function u is a φ-absolutely minimizing Lipschitz extension if and only if it is a viscosity solution of the φ-infinity Laplace equation, settling a longstanding question in the L∞-calculus of variations. The proofs combine new geometric constructions with classical notions from convex analysis.