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To contrast different generators for flow equations for Hamiltonians and to discuss the dependence of physical quantities on unitarily equivalent, but effectively different initial Hamiltonians, a numerically solvable model is considered…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Stauber , A. Mielke

Recently the Hamilton-Jacobi formulation for first order constrained systems has been developed. In such formalism the equations of motion are written as total differential equations in many variables. We generalize the Hamilton-Jacobi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 B. M. Pimentel , R. G. Teixeira

We address the problem of optimal path planning for a simple nonholonomic vehicle in the presence of obstacles. Most current approaches are either split hierarchically into global path planning and local collision avoidance, or neglect some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-08 Christian Parkinson , Andrea L. Bertozzi , Stanley Osher

We consider the problem of time-optimal path planning for simple nonholonomic vehicles. In previous similar work, the vehicle has been simplified to a point mass and the obstacles have been stationary. Our formulation accounts for a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-22 Christian Parkinson , Madeline Ceccia

We consider the road-field reaction-diffusion model introduced by Berestycki, Roquejoffre, and Rossi. By performing a "thin-front limit," we are able to deduce a Hamilton-Jacobi equation with a suitable effective Hamiltonian on the road…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Christopher Henderson , King-Yeung Lam

We discuss a general procedure for arriving at the Hamilton-Jacobi equation of second-class constrained systems, and illustrate it in terms of a number of examples by explicitely obtaining the respective Hamilton principal function, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 K D Rothe , F G Scholtz

A multi-dimensional junction is obtained by identifying the boundaries of a finite number of copies of an Euclidian half-space. The main contribution of this article is the construction of a multidimensional vertex test function G(x, y).…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-28 Cyril Imbert , R Monneau

The simulation of traffic flow on networks requires knowledge on the behavior across traffic intersections. For macroscopic models based on hyperbolic conservation laws there exist nowadays many ad-hoc models describing this behavior. Based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Michael Herty , Niklas Kolbe

Kinetic models for vehicular traffic are reviewed and considered from the point of view of deriving macroscopic equations. A derivation of the associated macroscopic traffic flow equations leads to different types of equations: in certain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Raul Borsche , Axel Klar , Mark Kimathi

Here, we study quantitative homogenization of first-order convex Hamilton-Jacobi equations with $(u/\varepsilon)$-periodic Hamiltonians which typically appear in dislocation dynamics. Firstly, we establish the optimal convergence rate by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Hiroyoshi Mitake , Panrui Ni , Hung V. Tran

Nowadays, traffic management has become a challenge for urban areas, which are covering larger geographic spaces and facing the generation of different kinds of traffic data. This article presents a robust traffic estimation framework for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-13 Edward S. Canepa , Christian G. Claudel

This paper is a survey of the generalized Hamiltonian gradient flow (GHGF) framework for Hamilton-Jacobi equations, with an emphasis on the propagation of singularities and its connections to weak KAM theory, optimal transport and mean…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Wei Cheng , Jiahui Hong

The Hamilton-Jacobi equation on metric spaces has been studied by several authors; following the approach of Gangbo and Swiech, we show that the final value problem for the Hamilton-Jacobi equation has a unique solution even if we add a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Ugo Bessi

We study existence, uniqueness and regularity properties of classical solutions to viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations with Caputo time-fractional derivative. Our study relies on a combination of a gradient bound for the time-fractional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Fabio Camilli , Alessandro Goffi

We generalize the Hamilton-Jacobi formulation for higher order singular systems and obtain the equations of motion as total differential equations. To do this we first study the constraint structure present in such systems.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 B. M. Pimentel , R. G. Teixeira

We consider the stationary Hamilton-Jacobi equation where the dynamics can vanish at some points, the cost function is strictly positive and is allowed to be discontinuous. More precisely, we consider special class of discontinuities for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-09 Adriano Festa , Maurizio Falcone

The long-time behavior of stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi equations is analyzed, including the stochastic mean curvature flow as a special case. In a variety of settings, new and sharpened results are obtained. Among them are (i) a…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Paul Gassiat , Benjamin Gess , Pierre-Louis Lions , Panagiotis E. Souganidis

We develop a constructive procedure for arriving at the Hamilton-Jacobi framework for the so-called affine in acceleration theories by analysing the canonical constraint structure. We find two scenarios in dependence of the order of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 Alejandro Aguilar-Salas , Efraín Rojas

Motivated by optimal control problems and differential games for functional differential equations of retarded type, the paper deals with a Cauchy problem for a path-dependent Hamilton--Jacobi equation with a right-end boundary condition.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Mikhail I. Gomoyunov , Nikolai Yu. Lukoyanov , Anton R. Plaksin

We consider a path-dependent Hamilton--Jacobi equation with coinvariant derivatives over the space of continuous functions. We prove two uniqueness results for viscosity (generalized) solutions defined in terms of coinvariantly smooth test…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Mikhail I. Gomoyunov