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Ergodic pairs for fractional Hamilton-Jacobi equations on bounded domains: large solutions

Analysis of PDEs 2026-01-19 v1

Abstract

In this article, we study the ergodic problem associated to viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation where the diffusion is governed by the censored fractional Laplacian, a nonlocal elliptic operator restricted to a bounded domain ΩRN\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N. We restrict ourselves to the case in which the nonlinear gradient term has a scaling less or equal than the fractional order of the diffusion. In similarity to its second-order counterpart, we provide existence of ergodic pairs involving solutions that blow-up on Ω\partial \Omega. We use the celebrated vanishing discount method, where the analysis of the approximated solutions have its own interest, leading to qualitative properties for the ergodic problem such as precise blow-up rates for the solution and characterization of the ergodic constant. The main difficulties arise from the state-dependency of the operator, from which the arguments of the local case based on well-known invariance properties of the Laplacian are not longer at disposal.

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@article{arxiv.2601.11241,
  title  = {Ergodic pairs for fractional Hamilton-Jacobi equations on bounded domains: large solutions},
  author = {Alexander Quaas and Erwin Topp},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.11241},
  year   = {2026}
}