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We establish some perturbed minimization principles, and we develop a theory of subdifferential calculus, for functions defined on Riemannian manifolds. Then we apply these results to show existence and uniqueness of viscosity solutions to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Daniel Azagra , Juan Ferrera , Fernando Lopez-Mesas

The log-homotopy particle flow filter resolves the Bayesian update by transporting particles along a continuous trajectory in pseudo-time. However, the governing partial differential equation for the flow velocity is fundamentally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Olivér Törő , Domonkos Csuzdi , Tamás Bécsi

The decomposition of the energy of a compressible fluid parcel into slow (deterministic) and fast (stochastic) components is interpreted as a stochastic Hamiltonian interacting particle system (HIPS). It is shown that the McKean-Vlasov…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-02 Simon Hochgerner

We consider the diffusive Hamilton-Jacobi equation, with homogeneous Dirichlet conditions and regular initial data. It is known from [Barles-DaLio, 2004] that the problem admits a unique, continuous, global viscosity solution, which extends…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Alessio Porretta , Philippe Souplet

The rarely used Hamilton-Jacobi equation has been utilized as an elegant way to find the trajectories of mechanical systems and to derive symplectic maps. Further, the exact solution in kick approximation of Hamilton's equations of motion…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Stephan I. Tzenov

Employing a suitable nonlinear Lagrange functional, we derive generalized Hamilton-Jacobi equations for dynamical systems subject to linear velocity constraints. As long as a solution of the generalized Hamilton-Jacobi equation exists, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michele Pavon

This paper develops a comprehensive Hamilton-Jacobi framework to analyze asymptotic propagation dynamics in a field-road system featuring unidirectional advection and Wentzell-type boundary conditions. We rigorously derive a Hamilton-Jacobi…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Xinye Xiao , Haomin Huang

Two different types of generalized solutions, namely viscosity and variational solutions, were introduced to solve the first-order evolutionary Hamilton--Jacobi equation. They coincide if the Hamiltonian is convex in the momentum variable.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Valentine Roos

The aim of this article is twofold. First, we develop a unified framework for viscosity solutions to both first-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations and semilinear Hamilton-Jacobi equations driven by the idiosyncratic operator, defined on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Giacomo Ceccherini Silberstein , Daniela Tonon

We give a new perspective on the existence of viscosity solutions for a stationary and a time-dependent first-order Hamilton-Jacobi equation. Following recent comparison principles, we work in a framework in which we consider a subsolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Serena Della Corte , Richard C. Kraaij

We establish multi-scale convergence theory for a class of Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs in space of probability measures. They arise from context of hydrodynamic limit of N-particle deterministic action minimizing (global) Lagrangian dynamics. From…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Jin Feng

We study the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for undiscounted exit time control problems with general nonnegative Lagrangians using the dynamic programming approach. We prove theorems characterizing the value function as the unique…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Malisoff

The paper deals with path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations with a coinvariant derivative which arise in investigations of optimal control problems and differential games for neutral-type systems in Hale's form. A viscosity (generalized)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Anton Plaksin

An ideal compressible fluid is considered, with an equilibrium density being a given function of coordinates due to presence of some static external forces. The slow flows in such system, which do not disturb the density, are investigated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-06 V. P. Ruban

A new microscopic formula for the viscosity of liquids and solids is derived rigorously from a first-principles (microscopically reversible) Hamiltonian for particle-bath atomistic motion. The derivation is done within the framework of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-17 Alessio Zaccone

We investigate a singular perturbation for Hamilton-Jacobi equations in an open subset of two dimensional Euclidean space, where the set is determined through a Hamiltonian function and the Hamilton-Jacobi equations are the dynamic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-31 Taiga Kumagai

We present a framework for efficient extraction of the viscosity solutions of nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi equations with convex Hamiltonians. These viscosity solutions play a central role in areas such as front propagation, mean-field games,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Shi Jin , Nana Liu

In quantitative genetics, viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations appear naturally in the asymptotic limit of selection-mutation models when the population variance vanishes. They have to be solved together with an unknown function…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-17 Vincent Calvez , King-Yeung Lam

In our previous papers [11,13] we showed that the Hamilton-Jacobi problem can be regarded as a way to describe a given dynamics on a phase space manifold in terms of a family of dynamics on a lower-dimensional manifold. We also showed how…

For non convex Hamiltonians, the viscosity solution and the more geometric minimax solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation do not coincide in general. They are nevertheless related: we show that iterating the minimax procedure during…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Qiaoling Wei