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Differential games and Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the Heisenberg group

Analysis of PDEs 2018-03-02 v1

Abstract

The purpose of this work is twofold. First we study the solutions of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation of the form ut(t,x)+H(t,x,Hu(t,x))=0u_t(t,x)+\mathcal{H}(t,x,\nabla_H u(t,x))=0, where Hu\nabla_H u represents the horizontal gradient of a function uu defined on the Heisenberg group I ⁣ ⁣H{I\!\!H}. Motivated by the recent paper by Liu, Manfredi and Zhou (\cite{LiMaZh2016}), we prove a Lipschitz continuity preserving property for uu with respect to the Kor\'anyi homogeneous distances dGd_G in I ⁣ ⁣H{I\!\!H}. Secondly, we are keenly interested in introducing the game theory in I ⁣ ⁣H{I\!\!H}, taking into account its Sub-Riemannian structure: inspired by ideas in the paper of Evans and Souganidis (see \cite{EvSo1984}), in the paper of and Balogh, Calogero and Pini \cite{BaCaPi2014}, we prove dGd_G-Lipschitz regularity results for the lower and the upper value functions of a zero game with horizontal curves as its trajectories, and we study the Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs equations associated to such zero game. As a consequence, we also provide a representation of the viscosity solution of the initial Hamilton-Jacobi equation.

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@article{arxiv.1803.00528,
  title  = {Differential games and Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the Heisenberg group},
  author = {Andrea Calogero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.00528},
  year   = {2018}
}