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We propose a new probabilistic numerical scheme for fully nonlinear equation of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) type associated to stochastic control problem, which is based on the Feynman-Kac representation in [12] by means of control…

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In this paper we present a general framework that allows one to study discretization of certain dynamical systems. This generalizes earlier work on discretization of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems on tangent bundles and cotangent…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vincent M. Guibout , Anthony M. Bloch

This paper is devoted to the stochastic optimal control problem of infinite-dimensional differential systems allowing for both path-dependence and measurable randomness. As opposed to the deterministic path-dependent cases studied by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Jinniao Qiu , Yang Yang

The method of distributions is developed for systems that are governed by hyperbolic conservation laws with stochastic forcing. The method yields a deterministic equation for the cumulative density distribution (CDF) of a system state,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-05 Rik J. L. Rutjens , Gustaaf B. Jacobs , Daniel M. Tartakovsky

For finite-dimensional problems, stochastic approximation methods have long been used to solve stochastic optimization problems. Their application to infinite-dimensional problems is less understood, particularly for nonconvex objectives.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Caroline Geiersbach , Teresa Scarinci

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Maria Coclite , Nils Henrik Risebro

In this note, we demonstrate that a locally semiconvex viscosity supersolution to a possibly degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation is differentiable along the directions spanned by the range of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Salvatore Federico , Giorgio Ferrari , Mauro Rosestolato

We obtain non-symmetric upper and lower bounds on the rate of convergence of general monotone approximation/numerical schemes for parabolic Hamilton Jacobi Bellman Equations by introducing a new notion of consistency. We apply our general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Guy Barles , Espen R. Jakobsen

This paper presents the convergence analysis of the spatial finite difference method (FDM) for the stochastic Cahn--Hilliard equation with Lipschitz nonlinearity and multiplicative noise. Based on fine estimates of the discrete Green…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Jialin Hong , Diancong Jin , Derui Sheng

We address the numerical approximation of Mean Field Games with local couplings. For power-like Hamiltonians, we consider both unconstrained and constrained stationary systems with density constraints in order to model hard congestion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-08 L. M. Briceño-Arias , D. Kalise , F. J. Silva

Motivated by the vanishing contact problem, we study in the present paper the convergence of solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations depending nonlinearly on the unknown function. Let $H(x,p,u)$ be a continuous Hamiltonian which is strictly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Qinbo Chen

In this paper, a least-squares finite element method for scalar nonlinear hyperbolic balance laws is proposed and studied. The approach is based on a formulation that utilizes an appropriate Helmholtz decomposition of the flux vector and is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Delyan Z. Kalchev , Thomas A. Manteuffel

A common approach to studying high-dimensional systems with emergent low-dimensional behavior is based on lift-evolve-restrict maps (called equation-free methods): first, a user-defined lifting operator maps a set of low-dimensional…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Jan Sieber , Christian Marschler , Jens Starke

The equivalence between logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and hypercontractivity of solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations has been proved in [5]. We consider a semi-Lagrangian approximation scheme for the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-12 Fabio Camilli , Paola Loreti , Cristina Pocci

The study of uncertainty propagation poses a great challenge to design numerical solvers with high fidelity. Based on the stochastic Galerkin formulation, this paper addresses the idea and implementation of the first flux reconstruction…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Tianbai Xiao , Jonas Kusch , Julian Koellermeier , Martin Frank

This paper develops a comprehensive Hamilton-Jacobi framework to analyze asymptotic propagation dynamics in a field-road system featuring unidirectional advection and Wentzell-type boundary conditions. We rigorously derive a Hamilton-Jacobi…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Xinye Xiao , Haomin Huang

We study a random process on R n moving in straight lines and changing randomly its velocity at random exponential times. We focus more precisely on the Kolmogorov equation in the hyperbolic scale (t, x, v) $\to$ t $\epsilon$, x $\epsilon$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Nils Caillerie

We describe a methodology to build vectorial kinetic schemes, targetting the numerical solution of linear symmetric-hyperbolic systems of conservation laws -a minimal application case for those schemes. Precisely, we fully detail the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Emmanuel Audusse , Sébastien Boyaval , Virgile Dubos , Minh-Hoang Le

We consider the homogenization of Hamilton-Jacobi equations and degenerate Bellman equations in stationary, ergodic, unbounded environments. We prove that, as the microscopic scale tends to zero, the equation averages to a deterministic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-22 Scott N. Armstrong , Panagiotis E. Souganidis

We develop deterministic particle schemes to solve non-local scalar conservation laws with congestion. We show that the discrete approximations converge to the unique entropy solution with an explicit rate of convergence under more general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Emanuela Radici , Federico Stra