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The covariant Hamilton-Jacobi formulation of Maxwell's equations is derived from the first-order (Palatini-like) Lagrangian using the analysis of constraints within the De~Donder-Weyl covariant Hamiltonian formalism and the corresponding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Monika E. Pietrzyk , Cécile Barbachoux , Igor V. Kanatchikov , Joseph Kouneiher

We prove the existence of a critical subsolution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation which is differentiable with Lipschitz differential, improving a previous result of Fathi and Siconolfi. This text is a consolidated version with a minor…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-06-05 Patrick Bernard

Minimax solutions are weak solutions to Cauchy problems involving Hamilton--Jacobi equations, constructed from generating families quadratic at infinity of their geometric solutions. We give a complete description of minimax solutions and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Gianmarco Capitanio

The Hamilton-Jacobi equation on metric spaces has been studied by several authors; following the approach of Gangbo and Swiech, we show that the final value problem for the Hamilton-Jacobi equation has a unique solution even if we add a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Ugo Bessi

In this paper the structures of the generalised Euler-Lagrange equations and their associated conserved quantities are derived for one-dimensional Herglotz variational problems of order $n$. Their derivations use the framework of moving…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Tânia M. N. Gonçalves , Delfim F. M. Torres , Gastão S. F. Frederico

We develop a contact-geometric framework for dissipative nonlinear field theories by extending the least constraint theorem to complex fields and establishing a rigorous link with probability measures. The Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-03 D. Y. Zhong , G. Q. Wang

The Hamilton-Jacobi $[HJ]$ study for the Chern-Simons $[CS]$ modification of general relativity $[GR]$ is performed. The complete structure of the Hamiltonians and the generalized brackets are reported, from these results the $HJ$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-07 Alberto Escalante , J. Aldair Pantoja-Gonzalez

The goal of this paper is to prove a comparison principle for viscosity solutions of semilinear Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the space of probability measures. The method involves leveraging differentiability properties of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Samuel Daudin , Benjamin Seeger

In this paper we set up a rigorous justification for the reinitialization algorithm. Using the theory of viscosity solutions, we propose a well-posed Hamilton-Jacobi equation with a parameter, which is derived from homogenization for a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-02 Nao Hamamuki , Eleftherios Ntovoris

We study fractional variational problems of Herglotz type of variable order. Necessary optimality conditions, described by fractional differential equations depending on a combined Caputo fractional derivative of variable order, are proved.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-12 Dina Tavares , Ricardo Almeida , Delfim F. M. Torres

In this article we describe how the celebrated result by Lions, Papanicolau and Varadhan on the Homogenization of Hamilton-Jacobi equation can be extended beyond the Euclidean setting. More specifically, we show how to obtain a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Alfonso Sorrentino

We propose a new globally convergent numerical method to solve Hamilton-Jacobi equations in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d \geq 1$. This method is named as the Carleman convexification method. By Carleman convexification, we mean that we use a Carleman…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Huynh P. N. Le , Thuy T. Le , Loc H. Nguyen

Derived from the concentration-compactness principle, the concept of generalized minimizer can be used to define generalized solutions of variational problems which may have components ``infinitely'' distant from each other. In this article…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Jules Candau-Tilh

The study of stochastic variational principles involves the problem of constructing fixed-endpoint and adapted variations of semimartingales. We provide a detailed construction of variations of semimartingales that are not only fixed at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Archishman Saha

We follow up on our previous works which presented a possible approach for deriving symplectic schemes for a certain class of highly oscillatory Hamiltonian systems. The approach considers the Hamilton-Jacobi form of the equations of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-08-06 Matthew Dobson , Claude Le Bris , Frederic Legoll

We provide a general algorithm for constructing the holographic dictionary for any asymptotically locally Lifshitz background, with or without hyperscaling violation, and for any values of the dynamical exponents $z$ and $\theta$, as well…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Wissam Chemissany , Ioannis Papadimitriou

This paper presents a systematic quantitative study of contact rigidity phenomena based on the contact Hamiltonian Floer theory established by Merry-Uljarevi\'c. Our quantitative approach applies to arbitrary admissible contact Hamiltonian…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Danijel Djordjević , Igor Uljarević , Jun Zhang

In this paper, we demonstrate a polynomial convergence rate for homogenization of Hamilton-Jacobi equations with quasi-periodic potentials. We establish a connection between the convergence rate of homogenization and the regularity of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Bingyang Hu , Son N. T. Tu , Jianlu Zhang

We consider a generalized equation governed by a strongly monotone and Lipschitz single-valued mapping and a maximally monotone set-valued mapping in a Hilbert space. We are interested in the sensitivity of solutions w.r.t. perturbations of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Gerd Wachsmuth

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