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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Jeff Calder , Mahmood Ettehad

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

We study some differential properties of viscosity solution for Hamilton - Jacobi equations defined by Hopf-Lax formula $u(t,x)=\min_{y\in \R^n} \big\{\sigma (y)+tH^*\big (\frac {x-y}{t}\big)\big \}.$ A generalized form of characteristics…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-19 Nguyen Hoang

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

In this article we study ergodic problems in the whole space R m for viscous Hamilton-Jacobi Equations in the case of locally Lips-chitz continuous and coercive right-hand sides. We prove in particular the existence of a critical value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Guy Barles , Joao Meireles

The main purpose of this paper is to study the global propagation of singularities of viscosity solution to discounted Hamilton-Jacobi equation \begin{equation}\label{eq:discount 1}\tag{HJ$_\lambda$} \lambda v(x)+H( x, Dv(x) )=0 , \quad…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-14 Cui Chen , Jiahui Hong , Kai Zhao

In this article we study ergodic problems in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^N$ for weakly coupled systems of viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations with coercive right-hand sides. The Hamiltonians are assumed to have a fairly general structure and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Ari Arapostathis , Anup Biswas , Prasun Roychowdhury

We show a connection between global unconstrained optimization of a continuous function $f$ and weak KAM theory for an eikonal-type equation arising also in ergodic control. A solution $v$ of the critical Hamilton-Jacobi equation is built…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Martino Bardi , Hicham Kouhkouh

In this paper we prove the equivalence between some known notions of solutions to the eikonal equation and more general analogs of the Hamilton-Jacobi equations in complete and rectifiably connected metric spaces. The notions considered are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Qing Liu , Nageswari Shanmugalingam , Xiaodan Zhou

We present a new formulation for the computation of solutions of a class of Hamilton Jacobi Bellman (HJB) equations on closed smooth surfaces of co-dimension one. For the class of equations considered in this paper, the viscosity solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Lindsay Martin , Richard Tsai

Maximum entropy reinforcement learning (RL) methods have been successfully applied to a range of challenging sequential decision-making and control tasks. However, most of existing techniques are designed for discrete-time systems. As a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Jeongho Kim , Insoon Yang

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

The purpose of this article is to prove existence, uniqueness and uniform gradient estimates for unbounded classical solutions of a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation. Such an equation naturally arises in stochastic control problems. Contrary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Louis-Pierre Chaintron

We consider the well-posedness and numerical approximation of a Hamilton--Jacobi equation on an evolving hypersurface in $\mathbb R^3$. Definitions of viscosity sub- and supersolutions are extended in a natural way to evolving hypersurfaces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Klaus Deckelnick , Charles M. Elliott , Tatsu-Hiko Miura , Vanessa Styles

In this paper, we study the family of inhomogeneous discounted Hamilton-Jacobi equations \begin{equation}\label{hjs1} \lambda(x)u+h(x,d_x u)=c \quad \tag{$\ast$} \end{equation} on a closed manifold $M$ with a non-identically vanishing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Liang Jin , Jun Yan , Kai Zhao

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

A Hamilton-Jacobi equation with Caputo's time-fractional derivative of order less than one is considered. The notion of a viscosity solution is introduced to prove unique existence of a solution to the initial value problem under periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Yoshikazu Giga , Tokinaga Namba

For any compact connected manifold $M$, we consider the generalized contact Hamiltonian $H(x,p,u)$ defined on $T^*M\times\mathbb R$ which is conex in $p$ and monotonically increasing in $u$. Let $u_\epsilon^-:M\rightarrow\mathbb R$ be the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Yanan Wang , Jun Yan , Jianlu Zhang

In this paper we show a uniqueness result for weak epigraphical solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations on infinite horizon for a class of lower semicontinuous functions vanishing at infinity. Weak epigraphical solutions of HJB…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-19 Vincenzo Basco

We present a novel framework for solving optimal transport (OT) problems based on the Hamilton--Jacobi (HJ) equation, whose viscosity solution uniquely characterizes the OT map. By leveraging the method of characteristics, we derive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yesom Park , Shu Liu , Mo Zhou , Stanley Osher