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We consider the following evolutionary Hamilton-Jacobi equation with initial condition: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \partial_tu(x,t)+H(x,u(x,t),\partial_xu(x,t))=0,\\ u(x,0)=\phi(x). \end{cases} \end{equation*} Under some assumptions on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Xifeng Su , Lin Wang , Jun Yan

We study minimax (generalized) solutions of a Cauchy problem for a (first-order) path-dependent Hamilton--Jacobi equation with co-invariant derivatives under a right-end boundary condition. Under assumptions on the Hamiltonian that are more…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Mikhail Gomoyunov

We study the initial-boundary value problem for 1D compressible MHD equations of viscous non-resistive fluids in the Lagrangian mass coordinates. Based on the estimates of upper and lower bounds of the density, weak solutions are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Yang Li , Yongzhong Sun

We obtain a nonsmooth extension of Noether's symmetry theorem for variational problems with delayed arguments. The result is proved to be valid in the class of Lipschitz functions, as long as the delayed Euler-Lagrange extremals are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-11 Gastao S. F. Frederico , Tatiana Odzijewicz , Delfim F. M. Torres

We derive an explicit formula for global weak solutions of the one dimensional system of pressure-less Euler-Poisson equations. Our variational formulation is an extension of the well-known formula for entropy solutions of the scalar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-03-01 Eitan Tadmor , Dongming Wei

A viscosity approach is introduced for the Dirichlet problem associated to complex Hessian type equations on domains in $\C^n$. The arguments are modelled on the theory of viscosity solutions for real Hessian type equations developed by…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Slawomir Dinew , Hoang-Son Do , Tat Dat To

This note is to conclude $L^1-L^1$ estimates for solutions to the following Cauchy problem for visco-elastic damped $\sigma$-evolution models: \begin{equation} \begin{cases} u_{tt}+ (-\Delta)^\sigma u+ (-\Delta)^\sigma u_t = 0, &\quad x\in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-18 Tuan Anh Dao

We derive the long time asymptotic of solutions to an evolutive Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation in a bounded smooth domain, in connection with ergodic problems recently studied in \cite{bcr}. Our main assumption is an appropriate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Daniele Castorina , Annalisa Cesaroni , Luca Rossi

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

This study investigates Dirichlet boundary condition related to a class of nonlinear parabolic problem with nonnegative $L^1$-data, which has a variable-order fractional $p$-Laplacian operator. The existence and uniqueness of renormalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Sixuan Liu , Gang Dong , Hui Bi , Boying Wu

The main purpose of this work is to obtain a comparison principle for viscosity solutions of a system of elliptic Walsh's spider Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations, possessing a new boundary condition called non linear local-time Kirchhoff's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Isaac Ohavi

In this paper, we propose a Cauchy type problem to the timelike Lorentzian eikonal equation on a globally hyperbolic space-time. For this equation, as the value of the solution on a Cauchy surface is known, we prove the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Siyao Zhu , Xiaojun Cui , Tianqi Shi

We provide a Lax-Oleinik-type representation formula for solutions of time-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations, posed on a network with a rather general geometry, under standard assumptions on the Hamiltonians. It depends on a given initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Marco Pozza , Antonio Siconolfi

The time-dependent variational principle is used to optimize the linear and nonlinear parameters of Gaussian basis functions to solve the time-dependent Schrodinger equation in 1 and 3 dimensions for a one-body soft Coulomb potential in a…

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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Davide Giovagnoli , Enzo Maria Merlino , Diego Moreira

The paper begins with a novel variational formulation of Duffing equation using the extended framework of Hamilton's principle (EHP). This formulation properly accounts for initial conditions, and it recovers all the governing differential…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Jinkyu Kim , Hyeonseok Lee , Jinwon Shin

We introduce a notion of viscosity solutions for a general class of elliptic-parabolic phase transition problems. These include the Richards equation, which is a classical model in filtration theory. Existence and uniqueness results are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Inwon C. Kim , Norbert Pozar

This paper is concerned with a compressible MHD equations describing the evolution of viscous non-resistive fluids in piecewise regular bounded Lipschitz domains. Under the general inflow-outflow boundary conditions, we prove existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Yang Li , Young-Sam Kwon , Yongzhong Sun

A simple variational Lagrangian is proposed for the time development of an arbitrary density matrix, employing the "factorization" of the density. Only the "kinetic energy" appears in the Lagrangian. The formalism applies to pure and mixed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Englman , A. Yahalom

We study the smoothness of the upper and lower value functions of stochastic differential games in the framework of time-homogeneous (possibly degenerate) diffusion processes in a domain, under the assumption that the diffusion, drift and…

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