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This paper investigates the convergence properties of the upwind difference scheme for the Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation, a central partial differential equation in optimal control theory. First, assuming the existence of a…

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The purpose of this note is to provide an optimal rate of convergence in the vanishing viscosity regime for first-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations with uniformly convex Hamiltonian. We prove that for a globally Lipschitz-continuous and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Louis-Pierre Chaintron , Samuel Daudin

We study the speed of convergence in $L^\infty$ norm of the vanishing viscosity process for Hamilton-Jacobi equations with uniformly or strictly convex Hamiltonian terms with superquadratic behavior. Our analysis boosts previous findings on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Marco Cirant , Alessandro Goffi

In this paper, we show that the rate of convergence in periodic homogenization of convex Hamilton-Jacobi equations is always $O(\varepsilon)$, which is optimal. This is a natural extension of a result concerning stable norms in metric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Hung V. Tran , Yifeng Yu

The purpose of this note is to provide an optimal rate of convergence in the vanishing viscosity regime for first-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations with purely quadratic Hamiltonian. We show that for a globally Lipschitz-continuous terminal…

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A control theoretic approach is presented in this paper for both batch and instantaneous updates of weights in feed-forward neural networks. The popular Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation has been used to generate an optimal weight…

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This paper is concerned with the numerical analysis of the explicit upwind finite volume scheme for numerically solving continuity equations. We are interested in the case where the advecting velocity field has spatial Sobolev regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-04 André Schlichting , Christian Seis

In this paper, we establish the higher order convergence rates in periodic homogenization of viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations, which is convex and grows quadratically in the gradient variable. We observe that although the nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Sunghan Kim , Ki-Ahm Lee

We prove precise rates of convergence for monotone approximation schemes of fractional and nonlocal Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations. We consider diffusion corrected difference-quadrature schemes from the literature and new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Indranil Chowdhury , Espen R. Jakobsen

We investigate the convergence rate in the vanishing viscosity process of the solutions to the subquadratic state-constraint Hamilton-Jacobi equations. We give two different proofs of the fact that, for nonnegative Lipschitz data that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Yuxi Han , Son N. T. Tu

For unconstrained control problems, a local convergence rate is established for an $hp$-method based on collocation at the Radau quadrature points in each mesh interval of the discretization. If the continuous problem has a sufficiently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-20 William W. Hager , Hongyan Hou , Subhashree Mohapatra , Anil V. Rao

We investigate in this work a fully-discrete semi-Lagrangian approximation of second order possibly degenerate Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations on a bounded domain with oblique boundary conditions. These equations appear naturally in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Elisa Calzola , Elisabetta Carlini , Xavier Dupuis , Francisco J. Silva

A local convergence rate is established for an orthogonal collocation method based on Gauss quadrature applied to an unconstrained optimal control problem. If the continuous problem has a sufficiently smooth solution and the Hamiltonian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-12 William W. Hager , Hongyan Hou , Anil V. Rao

We provide improved convergence rates for various \emph{non-smooth} optimization problems via higher-order accelerated methods. In the case of $\ell_\infty$ regression, we achieves an $O(\epsilon^{-4/5})$ iteration complexity, breaking the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Brian Bullins , Richard Peng

High order upwind summation-by-parts finite difference operators have recently been developed. When combined with the simultaneous-approximation-term method to impose boundary conditions, the method converges faster than using traditional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-17 Yan Jiang , Siyang Wang

We study the optimal rate of convergence in periodic homogenization of the viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation $u^\varepsilon_t + H(\frac{x}{\varepsilon},Du^\varepsilon) = \varepsilon \Delta u^\varepsilon$ in $\mathbb R^n\times (0,\infty)$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Jianliang Qian , Timo Sprekeler , Hung V. Tran , Yifeng Yu

An advantageous feature of piecewise constant policy timestepping for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations is that different linear approximation schemes, and indeed different meshes, can be used for the resulting linear equations for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-21 Christoph Reisinger , Peter Forsyth

We review some recent work in fast, efficient and accurate methods to compute viscosity solutions and non-viscosity solutions to static Hamilton-Jacobi equations which arise in optimal control, anisotropic front propagation, and multiple…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 J. A. Sethian

This paper considers the problem of unconstrained minimization of smooth convex functions having Lipschitz continuous gradients with known Lipschitz constant. We recently proposed an optimized gradient method (OGM) for this problem and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Donghwan Kim , Jeffrey A. Fessler

We introduce a new numerical method to approximate the solution of a finite horizon deterministic optimal control problem. We exploit two Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDE, arising by considering the dynamics in forward and backward time. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Marianne Akian , Stéphane Gaubert , Shanqing Liu
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