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This paper is devoted to the study of fully nonlinear stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations for the optimal stochastic control problem of ordinary differential equations with random coefficients. Under the standard Lipschitz continuity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-28 Jinniao Qiu , Wenning Wei

We consider a singular control problem with regime switching that arises in problems of optimal investment decisions of cash-constrained firms. The value function is proved to be the unique viscosity solution of the associated…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-10-07 Erwan Pierre , Stéphane Villeneuve , Xavier Warin

The Hamilton Jacobi Bellman Equation (HJB) provides the globally optimal solution to large classes of control problems. Unfortunately, this generality comes at a price, the calculation of such solutions is typically intractible for systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Matanya B. Horowitz , Anil Damle , Joel W. Burdick

This paper extends the considerations of the works [1, 2] regarding curse-of-dimensionality-free numerical approaches to solve certain types of Hamilton-Jacobi equations arising in optimal control problems, differential games and elsewhere.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Ivan Yegorov , Peter Dower

We show that necessary and sufficient conditions of optimality in periodic optimization problems can be stated in terms of a solution of the corresponding HJB inequality, the latter being equivalent to a max-min type variational problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Vladimir Gaitsgory , Ludmila Manic

Here, we study quantitative homogenization of first-order convex Hamilton-Jacobi equations with $(u/\varepsilon)$-periodic Hamiltonians which typically appear in dislocation dynamics. Firstly, we establish the optimal convergence rate by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Hiroyoshi Mitake , Panrui Ni , Hung V. Tran

We study Hamilton-Jacobi equations on networks in the case where Hamiltonians are quasi-convex with respect to the gradient variable and can be discontinuous with respect to the space variable at vertices. First, we prove that imposing a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-01 Cyril Imbert , R Monneau

The geometric formulation of Hamilton--Jacobi theory for systems with nonholonomic constraints is developed, following the ideas of the authors in previous papers. The relation between the solutions of the Hamilton--Jacobi problem with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 J. F. Cariñena , X. Gracia , G. Marmo , E. Martinez , M. C. Muñoz-Lecanda , N. Roman-Roy

The purpose of this article is to prove existence, uniqueness and uniform gradient estimates for unbounded classical solutions of a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation. Such an equation naturally arises in stochastic control problems. Contrary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Louis-Pierre Chaintron

Here, we study Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations on graphs. These are meant to be the analog of any of the following types of equations in the continuum setting of partial differential and nonlocal integro-differential equations:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Nicolò Forcillo , Jun Kitagawa , Russell W. Schwab

We study the Cauchy problem of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation with the spatial variable in a closed convex cone. A monotonicity assumption on the nonlinearity allows us to prescribe no condition on the boundary of the cone. We show the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Hong-Bin Chen , Jiaming Xia

We obtain space-time H\"older regularity estimates for solutions of first- and second-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations perturbed with an additive stochastic forcing term. The bounds depend only on the growth of the Hamiltonian in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Benjamin Seeger

We establish a well-posedness and error-estimation framework that solves Hamilton-Jacobi equations by minimizing the least-squares residual of monotone finite-difference discretizations. This approach also applies naturally to second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Olivier Bokanowski , Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Richard Tsai

Our work focuses on stochastic gradient methods for optimizing a smooth non-convex loss function with a non-smooth non-convex regularizer. Research on this class of problem is quite limited, and until recently no non-asymptotic convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Michael R. Metel , Akiko Takeda

The rarely used Hamilton-Jacobi equation has been utilized as an elegant way to find the trajectories of mechanical systems and to derive symplectic maps. Further, the exact solution in kick approximation of Hamilton's equations of motion…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Stephan I. Tzenov

In an equity market model with "Knightian" uncertainty regarding the relative risk and covariance structure of its assets, we characterize in several ways the highest return relative to the market that can be achieved using nonanticipative…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-15 Daniel Fernholz , Ioannis Karatzas

A learning technique for finite horizon optimal control problems and its approximation based on polynomials is analyzed. It allows to circumvent, in part, the curse dimensionality which is involved when the feedback law is constructed by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Karl Kunisch , Donato Vásquez-Varas

This paper deals with the periodic homogenization of nonlocal parabolic Hamilton-Jacobi equations with superlinear growth in the gradient terms. We show that the problem presents different features depending on the order of the nonlocal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Martino Bardi , Annalisa Cesaroni , Erwin Topp

We prove stochastic homogenization for a class of non-convex and non-coercive first-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations in a finite-range-dependence environment for Hamiltonians that can be expressed by a max-min formula. Exploiting the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Andrea Davini , Raimundo Saona , Bruno Ziliotto

A two-person zero-sum differential game with unbounded controls is considered. Under proper coercivity conditions, the upper and lower value functions are characterized as the unique viscosity solutions to the corresponding upper and lower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-02-20 Hong Qiu , Jiongmin Yong