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This paper is a continuation of our accompanying paper [Talbi, Touzi and Zhang (2021)], where we characterized the mean field optimal stopping problem by an obstacle equation on the Wasserstein space of probability measures, provided that…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-18 Mehdi Talbi , Nizar Touzi , Jianfeng Zhang

We consider an obstacle problem for elastic curves with fixed ends. We attempt to extend the graph approach provided in [8]. More precisely, we investigate nonexistence of graph solutions for special obstacles and extend the class of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-10 Marius Müller

We examine $L^p$-viscosity solutions to fully nonlinear elliptic equations with bounded-measurable ingredients. By considering $p_0<p<d$, we focus on gradient-regularity estimates stemming from nonlinear potentials. We find conditions for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Edgard A. Pimentel , Miguel Walker

In this paper we establish the existence and uniqueness of solutions for nonlinear evolution equations on Banach space with locally monotone operators, which is a generalization of the classical result by J.L. Lions for monotone operators.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-13 Wei Liu

We connect boundary conditions for one-sided pseudo-differential operators with the generators of modified one-sided L\'evy processes. On one hand this allows modellers to use appropriate boundary conditions with confidence when restricting…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Boris Baeumer , Mihály Kovács , Lorenzo Toniazzi

The Heston stochastic volatility process is a degenerate diffusion process where the degeneracy in the diffusion coefficient is proportional to the square root of the distance to the boundary of the half-plane. The generator of this process…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-08 Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Paul M. N. Feehan

We prove the existence and uniqueness of solution of quasilinear stochastic partial differential equations with obstacle (OSPDEs in short) in degenerate case. Using De Giorgi's iteration, we deduce the $L^p-$estimates for the time-space…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Xue Yang , Jing Zhang

We analyze entropy solutions for a class of Levy mixed hyperbolicparabolic equations containing a non-local (or fractional) diffusion operator originating from a pure jump Levy process. For these solutions we establish uniqueness (L1…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-02-04 Kenneth H. Karlsen , Suleyman Ulusoy

Motivated by problems in machine learning, we study a class of variational problems characterized by nonlocal operators. These operators are characterized by power-type weights, which are singular at a portion of the boundary. We identify a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Qiang Du , James M. Scott

We study a general class of nonlinear second-order variational inequalities with interconnected bilateral obstacles, related to a multiple modes switching game. Under rather weak assumptions, using systems of penalized unilateral backward…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-22 Boualem Djehiche , Said Hamadene , Marie Amelie Morlais

We study the double-obstacle problem for the p-Laplace operator, p 2 [2;1). We prove that for Lipschitz boundary data and Lipschitz obstacles, viscosity solutions are unique and coincide with variational solutions. They are also uniform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-06 Luca Codenotti , Marta Lewicka , Juan Manfredi

This paper is devoted to the study of fully nonlinear stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations for the optimal stochastic control problem of ordinary differential equations with random coefficients. Under the standard Lipschitz continuity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-28 Jinniao Qiu , Wenning Wei

We study the inverse boundary value problems of determining a potential in the Helmholtz type equation for the perturbed biharmonic operator from the knowledge of the partial Cauchy data set. Our geometric setting is that of a domain whose…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Boya Liu

This paper introduces a notion of viscosity solutions for second order elliptic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations with infinite delay associated with infinite-horizon optimal control problems for stochastic differential equations with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Jianjun Zhou

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

Inspired by classical sensitivity results for nonlinear optimization, we derive and discuss new quantitative bounds to characterize the solution map and dual variables of a parametrized nonlinear program. In particular, we derive explicit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Irina Subotić , Adrian Hauswirth , Florian Dörfler

We study nonlocal conservation laws with a discontinuous flux function of regularity $\mathsf{L}^{\infty}(\mathbb{R})$ in the spatial variable and show existence and uniqueness of weak solutions in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Alexander Keimer , Lukas Pflug

We study equations from the area of peridynamics, which is an extension of elasticity. The governing equations form a system of nonlocal wave equations. Its governing operator is found to be a bounded, linear and self-adjoint operator on a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-06-24 Horst Reinhard Beyer , Burak Aksoylu , Fatih Celiker

In this paper we discuss the Mather problem for stationary Lagrangians, that is Lagrangians $L:\Rr^n\times \Rr^n\times \Omega\to \Rr$, where $\Omega$ is a compact metric space on which $\Rr^n$ acts through an action which leaves $L$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-03-10 Diogo A. Gomes , Elismar R. Oliveira

We consider a large family of integro-differential equations and establish a non-local counterpart of Hopf's lemma, directly expressed in terms of the symbol of the operator. As closely related problems, we also obtain a variety of maximum…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Anup Biswas , József Lőrinczi