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We study homogenization for a class of stationnary Hamilton-Jacobi equations in which the Hamiltonian is obtained by perturbing near the origin an otherwise periodic Hamiltonian. We prove that the limiting problem consists of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Yves Achdou , Claude Le Bris

We provide a semigroup approach to the viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation. It turns out that exponential Orlicz hearts are suitable spaces to handle the (quadratic) non-linearity of the Hamiltonian. Based on an abstract extension result for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Jonas Blessing , Michael Kupper

In this paper we propose a Hamilton-Jacobi theory for implicit contact Hamiltonian systems in two different ways. One is the understanding of implicit contact Hamiltonian dynamics as a Legendrian submanifold of the tangent contact space,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Oğul Esen , Manuel Lainz Valcázar , Manuel de León , Cristina Sardón

In this paper we develop a Hamilton-Jacobi theory in the setting of almost Poisson manifolds. The theory extends the classical Hamilton-Jacobi theory and can be also applied to very general situations including nonholonomic mechanical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 Manuel de León , David Martín de Diego , Miguel Vaquero

We study a one-parameter family of Eikonal Hamilton-Jacobi equations on an embedded network, and prove that there exists a unique critical value for which the corresponding equation admits global solutions, in a suitable viscosity sense.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Antonio Siconolfi , Alfonso Sorrentino

The transition between two conceptionally different solution procedures for general axisymmetric tangential contact problems with arbitrary laoding histories under Hertz-Mindlin assumptions is demonstrated, namely J\"ager's superposition…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-08 Emanuel Willert

In this paper, we introduce a framework for the discretization of a class of constrained Hamilton-Jacobi equations, a system coupling a Hamilton-Jacobi equation with a Lagrange multiplier determined by the constraint. The equation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Benoît Gaudeul , Hélène Hivert

This paper provides new theoretical connections between multi-time Hamilton-Jacobi partial differential equations and variational image decomposition models in imaging sciences. We show that the minimal values of these optimization problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-27 Jérôme Darbon , Tingwei Meng

We prove that a Hamilton-Jacobi equation in 1D with periodic forcing has a set of generalized solutions such that each solution is a sum of linear and continuous periodic functions; we also give a condition of uniqueness of this solution in…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei Sobolevskii

The Hamilton-Jacobi equation of classical mechanics is approached as a model reduction of conservative particle mechanics where the velocity degrees-of-freedom are eliminated. This viewpoint allows an extension of the association of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Amit Acharya

As a continuation of Rabei et al. work [11], the Hamilton- Jacobi partial differential equation is generalized to be applicable for systems containing fractional derivatives. The Hamilton- Jacobi function in configuration space is obtained…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Eqab M. Rabei , Bashar S. Ababneh

We consider a path-dependent Hamilton--Jacobi equation with coinvariant derivatives over the space of continuous functions. We prove two uniqueness results for viscosity (generalized) solutions defined in terms of coinvariantly smooth test…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Mikhail I. Gomoyunov

Main purpose of this paper is to study the local propagation of singularities of viscosity solution to contact type evolutionary Hamilton-Jacobi equation $$ D_tu(t,x)+H(t,x,D_xu(t,x),u(t,x))=0. $$ An important issue of this topic is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-11 Wei Cheng , Jiahui Hong

We establish a well-posedness and error-estimation framework that solves Hamilton-Jacobi equations by minimizing the least-squares residual of monotone finite-difference discretizations. This approach also applies naturally to second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Olivier Bokanowski , Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Richard Tsai

A detailed Hamilton-Jacobi analysis for linearized $\lambda R$ gravity is developed. The model is constructed by rewriting linearized gravity in terms of a parameter $\lambda$ and new variables. The set of all hamiltonians is identified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-05 J. Aldair Pantoja-Gonzalez , D. Vanessa Castro-Luna , Alberto Escalante

Found all equivalence classes for electromagnetic potentials and space-time metrics of Stackel spaces, provided that the equations of motion of the classical charged test particles are integrated by the method of complete separation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-14 Valeriy Obukhov

Some mechanical systems with dissipation can be described within the framework of the so-called contact mechanics: a modified form of the Euler-Lagrange equations stemming from Herglotz's variational principle, which admits a geometric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Xavier Gràcia , Ángel Martínez-Muñoz , Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy

This mini-course provides a presentation of the method of characteristics to initial/boundary-value problems for systems of first-order partial differential equations and to Hamilton-Jacobi variational inequalities. In particular, these…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean-Pierre Aubin

The Gelfand-Yaglom formula relates the regularized determinant of a differential operator to the solution of an initial value problem. Here we develop a generalized Gelfand-Yaglom formula for a Hamiltonian system with Lagrangian boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Meredith Shea

We study a selection problem for degenerate viscous Hamilton--Jacobi equations with convex Hamiltonians, in which the approximation procedure combines a nonlinear discounted approximation with a small potential perturbation. A key question…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Qinbo Chen , Zhi-Xiang Zhu