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Some properties of characteristic curves in connection with viscosity solution of Hamilton-Jacobi equations $(H,\sigma)$ defined by Hopf formula $u(t,x)=\max_{q\in\R^n}\{ \langle x,q\rangle -\sigma^*(q)-tH(q)\}$ are studied. We are…

Some properties of characteristic curves in connection with viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations defined by Hopf-type formula are studied. We investigate the points where the Hopf-type formula $u(t,x)$ is differentiable, and the…

We construct an explicit representation of viscosity solutions of the Cauchy problem for the Hamilton-Jacobi equation $(H,\sigma)$ on a given domain $\Omega= (0,T)\times \R^n.$ It is known that, if the Hamiltonian $H = H(t,p)$ is not a…

In this paper, we consider the following Hamilton-Jacobi equation with initial condition: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \partial_tu(x,t)+H(x,t,u(x,t),\partial_xu(x,t))=0, u(x,0)=\phi(x). \end{cases} \end{equation*} Under some assumptions…

We consider Hamilton--Jacobi equations, where the Hamiltonian depends discontinuously on both the spatial and temporal location. Our main results are the existence and well--posedness of a viscosity solution to the Cauchy problem. We define…

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…

We consider the following evolutionary Hamilton-Jacobi equation with initial condition: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \partial_tu(x,t)+H(x,u(x,t),\partial_xu(x,t))=0,\\ u(x,0)=\phi(x), \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $\phi(x)\in…

We give a meaning to the Hamilton--Jacobi equation arising from mean-field spin glass models in the viscosity sense, and establish the corresponding well-posedness. Originally defined on the set of monotone probability measures, these…

We consider the Hamilton-Jacobi equation \[{H}(x,Du)+\lambda(x)u=c,\quad x\in M, \] where $M$ is a connected, closed and smooth Riemannian manifold. The functions ${H}(x,p)$ and $\lambda(x)$ are continuous. ${H}(x,p)$ is convex, coercive…

We propose a novel, mesh-free, and gradient-free fixed-point approach for computing viscosity solutions of high-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations. By leveraging the Hopf-Lax formula, our approach iteratively solves the associated…

Based on a fixed point argument, we give a {\it dynamical representation} of the viscosity solution to Cauchy problem of certain weakly coupled systems of Hamilton-Jacobi equations with continuous initial datum. Using this formula, we…

We present comparison principles, Lipschitz estimates and study state constraints problems for degenerate, second-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations.

In the paper, we consider a path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equation with coinvariant derivatives over the space of continuous functions. Such equations arise from optimal control problems and differential games for time-delay systems. We…

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…

Using probabilistic methods we study the existence of viscosity solutions to non-linear integro-differential equations $$\partial_t u(t,x) - \sup_{\alpha \in I} \bigg( b_{\alpha}(x) \cdot \nabla_x u(t,x) + \frac{1}{2}…

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)…

We prove that the viscosity solution to a Hamilton-Jacobi equation with a smooth convex Hamiltonian of the form $H(x,p)$ is differentiable with respect to the initial condition. Moreover, the directional G\^ateaux derivatives can be…

For each continuous initial data $\varphi(x)\in C(M,\mathbb{R})$, we obtain the asymptotic Lipschitz regularity of the viscosity solution of the following evolutionary Hamilton-Jacobi equation with convex and coercive Hamiltonians:…

The aim of this paper is twofold. - In the setting of RCD(K,$\infty$) metric measure spaces, we derive uniform gradient and Laplacian contraction estimates along solutions of the viscous approximation of the Hamilton--Jacobi equation. We…

We study the Hamilton-Jacobi equations $H(x,Du,u)=0$ in $M$ and $\partial u/\partial t +H(x,D_xu,u)=0$ in $M\times(0,\infty)$, where the Hamiltonian $H=H(x,p,u)$ depends Lipschitz continuously on the variable $u$. In the framework of the…