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This paper is concerned with a comparison principle for viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ), -Bellman (HJB), and -Isaacs (HJI) equations for general classes of partial integro-differential operators. Our approach innovates in three…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Serena Della Corte , Fabian Fuchs , Richard C. Kraaij , Max Nendel

The comparison principle and the existence of the solution of the integro-differential equation with L{\'e}vy operators, in the framework of the viscosity solution, are shown in this paper. For the one dimensional case, a detailed estimate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-15 M. Arisawa

We obtain the comparison principle for discontinuous viscosity sub- and supersolutions of nonlocal Hamilton-Jacobi equations, with superlinear and coercive gradient terms. The nonlocal terms are integro-differential operators in L\'evy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Adina Ciomaga , Tri Minh Le , Olivier Ley , Erwin Topp

The equivalence of three different definitions of viscosity solutions for the integro-differential equation with the L{\'e}vy operator is shown in this paper. The key is Lemma 2.1, in which we construct a sequence of the approximating test…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-15 M. Arisawa

Viscosity solutions are suitable notions in the study of nonlinear PDEs justified by estimates established via the maximum principle or the comparison principle. Here we prove that the isoperimetric profile functions of Riemannian manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-20 Lei Ni , Kui Wang

This work provides a comparison principle for viscosity solutions to boundary value problems on (partially) bounded, cylindrical spaces. The comparison principle is based on a test function framework, that allows for the simultaneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Serena Della Corte , Fabian Fuchs , Richard C. Kraaij , Max Nendel

In this paper we study a system of variational inequalities where the operator is non-local, possibly degenerate and of second order. A special case of this type of problem occurs in the context of optimal switching problems when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-09 Niklas L. P. LundstrÖm , Kaj NystrÖm , Marcus Olofsson

The validity of the comparison principle in variable coefficient fully nonlinear gradient free potential theory is examined and then used to prove the comparison principle for fully nonlinear partial differential equations which determine a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Marco Cirant , Kevin R. Payne

We study viscosity solutions to a system of nonlinear degenerate parabolic partial integro-differential equations with interconnected obstacles. This type of problem occurs in the context of optimal switching problems when the dynamics of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Niklas L. P. Lundström , Marcus Olofsson , Thomas Önskog

We establish a comparison principle for viscosity solutions of a class of nonlinear partial differential equations posed on the space of nonnegative finite measures, thereby extending recent results for PDEs defined on the Wasserstein space…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Ibrahim Ekren , Xihao He , Tianxu Lan , Xiaolu Tan

The notion of viscosity solutions of scalar fully nonlinear partial differential equations of second order provides a framework in which startling comparison and uniqueness theorems, existence theorems, and theorems about continuous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Michael G. Crandall , Hitoshi Ishii , Pierre-Louis Lions

In this paper we consider the problem of viscosity solution of integro-partial differential equation(IPDE in short) via the solution of backward stochastic differential equations(BSDE in short) with jumps where L\'evy's measure is not…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Lamine Sylla

We present a general method to construct couplings of stochastic differential equations driven by L\'{e}vy noise in terms of coupling operators. This approach covers both coupling by reflection and refined basic coupling which are often…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-22 Mingjie Liang , René L. Schilling , Jian Wang

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 nonparametric methods to assess the multivariate L\'{e}vy measure are introduced. Starting from high-frequency observations of a L\'{e}vy process $\mathbf{X}$, we construct estimators for its tail integrals and the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-14 Axel Bücher , Mathias Vetter

We consider the Monge-Kantorovich optimal transportation problem between two measures, one of which is a weighted sum of Diracs. This problem is traditionally solved using expensive geometric methods. It can also be reformulated as an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Jean-David Benamou , Brittany D. Froese

Our study is dedicated to the probabilistic representation and numerical approximation of solutions to coupled systems of variational inequalities. The dynamics of each component of the solution is driven by a different linear parabolic…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-10 Romuald Elie , Idris Kharroubi

By developing a new technique called the bi-coupling argument, we estimate the relative entropy between different diffusion processes in terms of the distances of initial distributions and drift-diffusion coefficients. As an application,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Panpan Ren , Feng-Yu Wang

In this paper we develop a general framework for constructing and analysing coupled Markov chain Monte Carlo samplers, allowing for both (possibly degenerate) diffusion and piecewise deterministic Markov processes. For many performance…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-29 N. Nuesken , G. A. Pavliotis

We construct optimal Markov couplings of L\'{e}vy processes, whose L\'evy (jump) measure has an absolutely continuous component. The construction is based on properties of subordinate Brownian motions and the coupling of Brownian motions by…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-05-17 Björn Böttcher , René L. Schilling , Jian Wang
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