Solution

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At zero the right side is continuous but fails every local Lipschitz condition in its second variable, since . For every , the function
is continuously differentiable and satisfies the differential equation, including at the joining point where both one-sided derivatives are zero. Each has . The identically zero function is another possibility. Thus solutions exist but are not unique, even locally: choosing and taking the zero function already gives two different solutions on every neighborhood of zero. These are instances of waiting-time solutions of a sublinear Bernoulli equation.

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