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Recently, [arXiv:2311.08980] demonstrated that, if it exists, the limit free energy of possibly non-convex spin glass models must be determined by a characteristic of the associated infinite-dimensional non-convex Hamilton-Jacobi equation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Hong-Bin Chen

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*} where $\phi(x)\in…

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

We give a meaning to the Hamilton--Jacobi equation arising from mean-field spin glass models in the viscosity sense, and establish the corresponding well-posedness. Originally defined on the set of monotone probability measures, these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Hong-Bin Chen , Jiaming Xia

The aim of this paper is to develop a Hamilton--Jacobi theory for contact Hamiltonian systems. We find several forms for a suitable Hamilton-Jacobi equation accordingly to the Hamiltonian and the evolution vector fields for a given…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Manuel de León , Manuel Laínz , Álvaro Muñiz--Brea

In this paper we study an approximation scheme for an Hamilton-Jacobi equation of Eikonal type defined on a network. We introduce an appropriate notion of viscosity solution for this class of equations (see \cite{sc}) and we prove that an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-14 Fabio Camilli , Adriano Festa , Dirk Schieborn

Some properties of characteristic curves in connection with viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations defined by Hopf-type formula are studied. We investigate the points where the Hopf-type formula $u(t,x)$ is differentiable, and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Nguyen Hoang

This is a survey paper on the quantitative analysis of the propagation of singularities for the viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the past decades. We also review further applications of the theory to various fields such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-07 Piermarco Cannarsa , Wei Cheng

We provide a representation formula for viscosity solutions to a class of nonlinear second order parabolic PDEs given as a sup--envelope function. This is done through a dynamic programming principle derived from Denis, Hu, Peng (2010). The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Marco Pozza

We prove a stochastic representation formula for the viscosity solution of Dirichlet terminal-boundary value problem for a degenerate Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman integro-partial differential equation in a bounded domain. We show that the unique…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Ruoting Gong , Chenchen Mou , Andrzej Swiech

In quantitative genetics, viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations appear naturally in the asymptotic limit of selection-mutation models when the population variance vanishes. They have to be solved together with an unknown function…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-17 Vincent Calvez , King-Yeung Lam

We consider the well-posedness and numerical approximation of a Hamilton--Jacobi equation on an evolving hypersurface in $\mathbb R^3$. Definitions of viscosity sub- and supersolutions are extended in a natural way to evolving hypersurfaces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Klaus Deckelnick , Charles M. Elliott , Tatsu-Hiko Miura , Vanessa Styles

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

A Hamilton-Jacobi equation with Caputo's time-fractional derivative of order less than one is considered. The notion of a viscosity solution is introduced to prove unique existence of a solution to the initial value problem under periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Yoshikazu Giga , Tokinaga Namba

We provide a stochastic representation for a general class of viscous Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations, which has convexity and superlinear nonlinearity in its gradient term, via a type of backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Andrea Cosso , Huyên Pham , Hao Xing

The large time behavior of solutions to Cauchy problem for viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation is classified. The large time asymptotics are given by very singular self-similar solutions on one hand and by self-similar viscosity solutions on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Said Benachour , Grzegorz Karch , Philippe Laurençot

In this article, the notion of viscosity solution is introduced for the path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (PHJB) equations associated with the optimal control problems for path-dependent stochastic differential equations. We identify…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Jianjun Zhou

In this paper, we discuss all the possible pairs $(u,c)\in C(M,\mathbb R)\times\mathbb R$ solving (in the sense of viscosity) the contact Hamilton-Jacobi equation \[ H (x, d_xu, u) = c,\quad x\in M \] of which $M$ is a closed manifold and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Gengyu Liu , Jianlu Zhang

This paper concerns with the time periodic viscosity solution problem for a class of evolutionary contact Hamilton-Jacobi equations with time independent Hamiltonians on the torus $\mathbb{T}^n$. Under certain suitable assumptions we show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Kaizhi Wang , Jun Yan , Kai Zhao

We study a critical case of Coagulation-Fragmentation equations with multiplicative coagulation kernel and constant fragmentation kernel. Our method is based on the study of viscosity solutions to a new singular Hamilton-Jacobi equation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Hung V. Tran , Truong-Son Van

We prove that the multi-time Hamilton-Jacobi equation in general cannot be solved in the viscosity sense, in the non-convex setting, even when the Hamiltonians are in involution.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Andrea Davini , Maxime Zavidovique