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We study the large time behavior of solutions of first-order convex Hamilton-Jacobi Equations of Eikonal type set in the whole space. We assume that the solutions may have arbitrary growth. A complete study of the structure of solutions of…

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A discrete version of Lagrangian reduction is developed in the context of discrete time Lagrangian systems on $G\times G$, where $G$ is a Lie group. We consider the case when the Lagrange function is invariant with respect to the action of…

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We investigate expansive solutions of the $N$-body problem in $\mathbb{R}^d$ ($d\ge2$) driven by homogeneous Newtonian potentials of degree $-\alpha$. We establish the existence of half-entire expansive motions with prescribed initial…

We prove the existence of minimizers of causal variational principles on second countable, locally compact Hausdorff spaces. Moreover, the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equations are derived. The method is to first prove the existence of…

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In this paper we analyze the asymptotic behaviour as $p\to 1^+$ of solutions $u_p$ to $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{rclr} -\Delta_p u_p&=&\frac{\lambda}{|x|^p}|u_p|^{p-2}u_p+f&\quad \mbox{ in } \Omega,\\ u_p&=&0 &\quad \mbox{ on }\partial\Omega,…

In this paper, we study the large-time behavior of solutions to a class of partially dissipative linear hyperbolic systems with applications in velocity-jump processes in several dimensions. Given integers $n,d\ge 1$, let $\mathbf…

On a compact manifold $M^{n}$ ($n\geq 3$) with boundary, we study the asymptotic behavior as $\epsilon$ tends to zero of solutions $u_{\epsilon}: M \to \mathbb{C}$ to the equation $\Delta u_{\epsilon} + \epsilon^{-2}(1 -…

We establish that a viscosity solution to a multidimensional Hamilton-Jacobi equation with Bohr almost periodic initial data remains to be spatially almost periodic and the additive subgroup generated by its spectrum does not increase in…

In this article we study ergodic problems in the whole space R m for viscous Hamilton-Jacobi Equations in the case of locally Lips-chitz continuous and coercive right-hand sides. We prove in particular the existence of a critical value…

Certain dissipative systems, such as Caldirola and Kannai's damped simple harmonic oscillator, may be modelled by time-dependent Lagrangian and hence time dependent Hamiltonian systems with $n$ degrees of freedom. In this paper we treat…

The large time behavior of non-negative solutions to the viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation $u_t - \Delta u + |\nabla u|^q = 0$ in the whole space $R^N$ is investigated for the critical exponent $q = (N+2)/(N+1)$. Convergence towards a…

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