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Wellposedness of this parabolic PDE

Consider a terminal-boundary value problem for $v: (t,x,y)\in [0,T]\times \mathbb R^2_+\to \mathbb R\ni v(t,x,y)$:

$$v_t + \max(v_x,v_y)+ \frac 1 2 (v_{xx}+v_{yy})=0, \quad \forall (t,x,y)\in (0,T)\times (0,\infty)^2$$

and

\begin{eqnarray} v(T,x,y)&=&{\bf 1}_{\{x>0\}}+{\bf 1}_{\{y>0\}}\equiv g(x,y), \quad \forall (x,y)\in (0,\infty)^2 \\ v(t,x,0)&=&\int_0^{T-t} \frac{x\exp(-(x-s)^2/2s)}{\sqrt{2\pi s^3}}ds\equiv f(t,x), \quad \forall (t,x)\in (0,T)\times (0,\infty)\\ v(t,0,y)&=&\int_0^{T-t} \frac{y\exp(-(y-s)^2/2s)}{\sqrt{2\pi s^3}}ds\equiv f(t,y), \quad \forall (t,y)\in (0,T)\times (0,\infty). \end{eqnarray}

Is the above problem well posed (in any sens)? More precisely, I look for a solution $v$ that is spatially symmetric, i.e. $v(t,x,y)=v(t,y,x)$ and $0\le v\le 2$?

PS: An analysis for more general functions $g, f$ are welcome.

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