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We provide a Lax-Oleinik-type representation formula for solutions of time-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations, posed on a network with a rather general geometry, under standard assumptions on the Hamiltonians. It depends on a given initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Marco Pozza , Antonio Siconolfi

For a sub-riemannian structure on the torus, satisfying the H\"ormander condition, we consider the Ma\~n\'e Lagrangian associated to a horizontal vector field. Assuming that the Aubry set consists in a finite number of static classes, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Iker Martínez Juárez , Héctor Sánchez Morgado

We consider the Lax-Oleinik operator $\mathcal{T}$ associated with the non-stationary Hamilton-Jacobi equation $\partial_tu + H(t,x,\partial_xu) = \alpha_0$ for a Tonelli Hamiltonian $H$ and its \Mane critical value $\alpha_0$. It is known…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Skander Charfi

We study the semi-discrete approximation of Aubry and Mather sets for Tonelli Lagrangians on the flat torus. Starting from the discrete Lax--Oleinik equation, we introduce natural discrete analogues of these sets and analyze their…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Fabio Camilli , Cristian Mendico

We establish the stability under the formations of infimum and of convex combinations of subsolutions of convex Hamilton-Jacobi equations, some comparison and existence results for convex and coercive Hamilton-Jacobi equations with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Hitoshi Ishii

Let H be a Tonelli Hamiltonian defined on the cotangent bundle of a compact and connected manifold and let u be a semi-concave function defined on M. If E (u) is the set of all the super-differentials of u and (\phi t) the Hamiltonian flow…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Marie-Claude Arnaud

We provide a Lax-Oleinik-type representation formula for solutions to nonautonomous Hamilton-Jacobi equations posed on networks with a rather general geometry. The networks may possess countably many arcs and allow for the presence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Marco Pozza

We show that viscosity solutions of evolutionary weakly coupled systems of Hamilton--Jacobi equations can be approximated by iterated twisted Lax--Oleinik like operators. We establish convergence to the solution of the iterated scheme and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Maxime Zavidovique

For mechanical Hamiltonian systems on the torus, we study the dynamical properties of the generalized characteristics semiflows associated with certain Hamilton-Jacobi equations, and build the relation between the $\omega$-limit set of this…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Piermarco Cannarsa , Qinbo Chen , Wei Cheng

Motivated by the problem of global stability of thermodynamical equilibria in non-equilibrium thermodynamics formulated in a recent paper [12], we introduce some mechanisms for constructing semi-infinite orbits of contact Hamiltonian…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Liang Jin , Jun Yan , Kai Zhao

This paper explores the asymptotic properties of non-autonomous Lagrangian systems, assuming that the associated Tonelli Lagrangian converges to a time-periodic function. Specifically, given a continuous initial condition, we provide a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Veronica Danesi , Cristian Mendico , Xuan Tao , Kaizhi Wang

In the recent works \cite{Cannarsa-Chen-Cheng} and \cite{Cannarsa-Cheng3}, an intrinsic approach of the propagation of singularities along the generalized characteristics was obtained, even in global case, by a procedure of sup-convolution…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Cui Chen , Wei Cheng

We consider the Hamilton-Jacobi equation \[{H}(x,u,Du)=0,\quad x\in M, \] where $M$ is a connected, closed and smooth Riemannian manifold, ${H}(x,u,p)$ satisfies Tonelli conditions with respect to $p$ and certain decreasing condition with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Kaizhi Wang , Lin Wang , Jun Yan

The article contains a survey of our results on weakly commensurable arithmetic and general Zariski-dense subgroups, length-commensurable and isospectral locally symmetric spaces and of related problems in the theory of semi-simple agebraic…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-25 Gopal Prasad , Andrei S. Rapinchuk

Consider a proper cocompact CAT(0) space X. We give a complete algebraic characterisation of amenable groups of isometries of X. For amenable discrete subgroups, an even narrower description is derived, implying Q-linearity in the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace , Nicolas Monod

In this work we prove the existence of Fathi's weak KAM solutions for periodic Lagrangians and give a construction of all of them.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Gonzalo Contreras , Renato Iturriaga , Hector Sanchez-Morgado

For exact symplectic twist maps of the annulus, we etablish a choice of weak K.A.M. solutions $u_c=u(\cdot, c)$ that depend in a Lipschitz-continuous way on the cohomology class $c$. This allows us to make a bridge between weak K.A.M.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Marie-Claude Arnaud , Maxime Zavidovique

In discrete schemes, weak KAM solutions may be interpreted as approximations of correctors for some Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the periodic setting. It is known that correctors may not exist in the almost periodic setting. We show the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Eduardo Garibaldi , Samuel Petite , Philippe Thieullen

Viscosity solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation were introduced by Lions and Crandall. For Tonelli Hamiltonians, these solutions are generated by the Lax-Oleinik operator. It is known that this operator converges in the autonomous…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Skander Charfi

We initiate a study of cohomological aspects of weakly almost periodic group representations on Banach spaces, in particular, isometric representations on reflexive Banach spaces. Using the Ryll-Nardzewski fixed point Theorem, we prove a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-12 Uri Bader , Christian Rosendal , Roman Sauer