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This paper is concerned with the existence and uniqueness of positive solution for the fourth order Kirchhoff type problem $$\left\{\begin{array}{ll} u''''(x)-(a+b\int_0^1(u'(x))^2dx)u''(x)=\lambda f(u(x)),\ \ \ \ x\in(0,1),\\…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Jinxiang Wang

In this paper we deal with the well-posedness of Dirichlet problems associated to nonlocal Hamilton-Jacobi parabolic equations in a bounded, smooth domain $\Omega$, in the case when the classical boundary condition may be lost. We address…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-01 Guy Barles , Erwin Topp

In this paper we study stochastic optimal control problems of fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). The recursive cost functionals are defined by controlled fully coupled FBSDEs. We study two cases of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-06 Juan Li , Qingmeng Wei

We examine equations of the form {eqnarray*} \{{array}{lcl} \hfill \HA u &=& \lambda g(x) f(u) \qquad \text{in}\ \Omega \hfill u&=& 0 \qquad \qquad \qquad \text{on}\ \pOm, {array}. {eqnarray*} where $ \lambda >0$ is a parameter and $…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-12 Craig Cowan , Mostafa Fazly

This paper establishes the existence of a unique nonnegative continuous viscosity solution to the HJB equation associated with a Markovian linear-quadratic control problems with singular terminal state constraint and possibly unbounded cost…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-04-29 Ulrich Horst , Xiaonyu Xia

We characterize possible pairs $(u_\varepsilon,c)\in C(\mathbb{R}^n\backslash\varepsilon\mathbb{Z}^n,\mathbb{R})\times\mathbb{R}$ addressing the homogenization problem for Hamilton--Jacobi equations $$ H\left(\frac{x}{\varepsilon}, d…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Gengyu Liu , Son N. T. Tu , Jianlu Zhang

In this article, a notion of viscosity solutions is introduced for first order path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (PHJB) equations associated with optimal control problems for path-dependent evolution equations in Hilbert space. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Jianjun Zhou

In this work, we show existence and uniqueness of positive solutions of $H(Du, D^2u)+\chi(t)|Du|^\Gamma-f(u)u_t=$ in $\Omega\times(0, T)$ and $u=h$ on its parabolic boundary. The operator $H$ satisfies certain homogeneity conditions,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-31 Tilak Bhattacharya , Leonardo Marazzi

We study the periodic homogenization of the viscous Hamilton--Jacobi equation \[ u_t^\varepsilon + \frac{1}{2}|Du^\varepsilon|^2 + V\!\left(\frac{x}{\varepsilon}\right) = \frac{\varepsilon}{2}\Delta u^\varepsilon \qquad \text{in }…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Ziran Liu , Hung V. Tran , Yifeng Yu

We focus on the global semiconcavity of solutions to first-order Hamilton--Jacobi equations with state constraints, especially for the Hamiltonian $H(x, \beta):=|\beta|^p-f(x)$ with $p \in (1, 2]$. We first show that the solution is locally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Yuxi Han

We study an ergodic problem associated to a non-local Hamilton-Jacobi equation defined on the whole space $\lambda-\mathcal{L}[u](x)+|Du(x)|^m=f(x)$ and determine whether (unbounded) solutions exist or not. We prove that there is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Cristina Brändle , Emmanuel Chasseigne

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 study the following singular perturbation problem for the $p_\varepsilon(x)$-Laplacian: \[ \Delta_{p_\varepsilon(x)}u^\varepsilon:=\mbox{div}(|\nabla u^\varepsilon(x)|^{p_\varepsilon(x)-2}\nabla…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-02 Claudia Lederman , Noemi Wolanski

In this paper we provide a complete characterization of the regularity properties of the solutions associated to the homogeneous Dirichlet problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \displaystyle - \Delta_1 u= h(u)f & \text{in } \Omega, \\…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Antonio J. Martínez Aparicio , Francescantonio Oliva , Francesco Petitta

We show that if a Hamilton-Jacobi equation admits a differentiable solution whose gradient is Lipschitz, then this solution is the unique semi-concave weak solution. Our result does not rely on any convexity (nor concavity) assumptions on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Victor Issa

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ be a bounded domain and $\delta(x)$ be the distance of a point $x\in \Omega$ to the boundary. We study the positive solutions of the problem $\Delta u +\frac{\mu}{\delta(x)^2}u=u^p$ in $\Omega$, where $p>0,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-23 Catherine Bandle , Maria Assunta Pozio

The paper provides a uniqueness result for positive solutions of the Neumann and periodic boundary value problems associated with the $\phi$-Laplacian equation \begin{equation*} \bigl{(} \phi(u') \bigr{)}' + a(t) g(u) = 0, \end{equation*}…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Alberto Boscaggin , Guglielmo Feltrin , Fabio Zanolin

In this paper we show a uniqueness result for weak epigraphical solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations on infinite horizon for a class of lower semicontinuous functions vanishing at infinity. Weak epigraphical solutions of HJB…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-19 Vincenzo Basco

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 prove homogenization for a class of nonconvex (possibly degenerate) viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations in stationary ergodic random environments in one space dimension. The results concern Hamiltonians of the form $G(p)+V(x,\omega)$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Andrea Davini , Elena Kosygina