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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

We prove the existence and the uniqueness of strong solutions for the viscous Hamilton-Jacobi Equation with Neumann boundary condition and initial data a continious function. Then, we study the large time behavior of the solutions.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Said Benachour , Simona Dabuleanu

In this article, we study the large time behavior of solutions of first-order Hamilton-Jacobi Equations, set in a bounded domain with nonlinear Neumann boundary conditions, including the case of dynamical boundary conditions. We establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-30 Guy Barles , Hiroyoshi Mitake , Hitoshi Ishii

We characterize the value of swing contracts in continuous time as the unique viscosity solution of a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation with suitable boundary conditions. The case of contracts with penalties is straightforward, and in that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-05 M. Basei , A. Cesaroni , T. Vargiolu

This paper studies {a} mixed singular/switching stochastic control problem for a multidimensional diffusion with multiples regimes on a bounded domain. Using probabilistic, partial differential equation (PDE) and penalization techniques, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Mark Kelbert , Harold A. Moreno-Franco

Optimal control and the associated second-order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation are studied for unbounded stochastic evolution systems in Hilbert spaces. A new notion of viscosity solution, featured by absence of B-continuity, is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Shanjian Tang , Jianjun Zhou

Uniqueness of positive solutions to viscous Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations of the form $-\Delta u(x) + \frac{1}{\gamma} |D{u}(x)|^\gamma = f(x) - \lambda$, with $f$ a coercive function and $\lambda$ a constant, in the subquadratic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Ari Arapostathis , Anup Biswas , Luis Caffarelli

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

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Jianjun Zhou

We consider a kind of stochastic exit time optimal control problems, in which the cost function is defined through a nonlinear backward stochastic differential equation. We study the regularity of the value function for such a control…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Rainer Buckdahn , Tianyang Nie

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 consider the diffusive Hamilton-Jacobi equation, with homogeneous Dirichlet conditions and regular initial data. It is known from [Barles-DaLio, 2004] that the problem admits a unique, continuous, global viscosity solution, which extends…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Alessio Porretta , Philippe Souplet

A stochastic optimal control problem driven by an abstract evolution equation in a separable Hilbert space is considered. Thanks to the identification of the mild solution of the state equation as $\nu$-weak Dirichlet process, the value…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-21 Giorgio Fabbri , Francesco Russo

We consider a class of exit time stochastic control problems for diffusion processes with discounted criterion, where the controller can utilize a given amount of resource, called "fuel". In contrast to the vast majority of existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-30 Dmitry B. Rokhlin , Georgii Mironenko

We consider a class of stationary viscous Hamilton--Jacobi equations as $$ \left\{\begin{array}{l} \la u-{\rm div}(A(x) \nabla u)=H(x,\nabla u)\mbox{in }\Omega, u=0{on}\partial\Omega\end{array} \right. $$ where $\la\geq 0$, $A(x)$ is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-08-30 Guy Barles , Alessio Porretta

We consider the elliptic and parabolic superquadratic diffusive Hamilton-Jacobi equations with homogeneous Dirichlet conditions. For the elliptic problem in a half-space, we prove a Liouville-type classification, or symmetry result, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Roberta Filippucci , Patrizia Pucci , Philippe Souplet

We consider a path-dependent Hamilton--Jacobi equation with coinvariant derivatives over the space of continuous functions. We prove two uniqueness results for viscosity (generalized) solutions defined in terms of coinvariantly smooth test…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Mikhail I. Gomoyunov

This paper addresses the well-posedness of a general class of bulk-surface convective Cahn--Hilliard systems with singular potentials. For this model, we first prove the existence of a global-in-time weak solution by approximating the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Patrik Knopf , Jonas Stange

The main purpose of this paper is to study the global propagation of singularities of viscosity solution to discounted Hamilton-Jacobi equation \begin{equation}\label{eq:discount 1}\tag{HJ$_\lambda$} \lambda v(x)+H( x, Dv(x) )=0 , \quad…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-14 Cui Chen , Jiahui Hong , Kai Zhao

This paper studies the stochastic optimal control of jump-diffusion processes and the associated fully nonlinear backward stochastic Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (BSHJB) equations. We establish the dynamic programming principle (DPP) via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Dunxiang Liang , Qingxin Meng

We consider an infinite horizon control problem for dynamics constrained to remain on a multidimensional junction with entry costs. We derive the associated system of Hamilton-Jacobi equations (HJ), prove the comparison principle and that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Manh-Khang Dao , Boualem Djehiche