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We discuss a general procedure for arriving at the Hamilton-Jacobi equation of second-class constrained systems, and illustrate it in terms of a number of examples by explicitely obtaining the respective Hamilton principal function, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 K D Rothe , F G Scholtz

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

In this paper the structures of the generalised Euler-Lagrange equations and their associated conserved quantities are derived for one-dimensional Herglotz variational problems of order $n$. Their derivations use the framework of moving…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Tânia M. N. Gonçalves , Delfim F. M. Torres , Gastão S. F. Frederico

The aim of this paper is to bring together two approaches to non-conservative systems -- the generalized variational principle of Herglotz and the fractional calculus of variations. Namely, we consider functionals whose extrema are sought,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-04 Ricardo Almeida , Agnieszka B. Malinowska

In this paper we establish periodic homogenization for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations, associated to nonlocal operators of integro-differential type. We consider the case when the fractional diffusion has the same order as the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Adina Ciomaga , Daria Ghilli , Erwin Topp

The aim of this work is to ascertain the characterization of the existence of coexistence states for a class of cooperative systems supported by the study of an associated non--local equation through classical variational methods. Thanks to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Pablo Alvarez-Caudevilla

We propose a linear finite-element discretization of Dirichlet problems for static Hamilton-Jacobi equations on unstructured triangulations. The discretization is based on simplified localized Dirichlet problems that are solved by a local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Folkmar Bornemann , Christian Rasch

The study of fractional variational problems in terms of a combined fractional Caputo derivative is introduced. Necessary optimality conditions of Euler-Lagrange type for the basic, isoperimetric, and Lagrange variational problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-16 Agnieszka B. Malinowska , Delfim F. M. Torres

This paper develops a comparison theorem for viscosity solutions of a new class of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations, which is used to solve the separated problem governed by the K-S equation in the Wasserstein space. A distinctive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Hexiang Wan , Jie Xiong

Main objects of the paper are stationary and weak KAM Hamilton-Jacobi equations on the finite-dimensional torus. The key idea of the paper is to replace the underlying calculus of variations problems with continuous time Markov decision…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-17 Yurii Averboukh

We study a selection problem for degenerate viscous Hamilton--Jacobi equations with convex Hamiltonians, in which the approximation procedure combines a nonlinear discounted approximation with a small potential perturbation. A key question…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Qinbo Chen , Zhi-Xiang Zhu

Weak KAM theory for discount Hamilton-Jacobi equations and corresponding discount Lagrangian/Hamiltonian dynamics is developed. Then it is applied to error estimates for viscosity solutions in the vanishing discount process. The main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Hiroyoshi Mitake , Kohei Soga

The article studies the reiterated homogenization of linear elliptic variational inequalities arising in problems with unilateral constrains. We assume that the coefficients of the equations satisfy and abstract hypothesis covering on each…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-16 Hermann Douanla , Cyrille Kenne

The Hamilton-Jacobi problem is revisited bearing in mind the consequences arising from a possible bi-Hamiltonian structure. The problem is formulated on the tangent bundle for Lagrangian systems in order to avoid the bias of the existence…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-11 J. F. Carinena , X. Gracia , G. Marmo , E. Martinez , M. Munoz-Lecanda , N. Roman-Roy

Cagnetti, Gomes, Mitake and Tran (2013) introduced a new idea to study the large time behavior for degenerate viscous Hamilton--Jacobi equations. In this paper, we apply the method to study the large-time behavior of the solution to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-20 Hiroyoshi Mitake , Hung Vinh Tran

We couple the mixed variational problem for the generalized Hodge-Helmholtz or Hodge-Laplace equation posed on a bounded three-dimensional Lipschitz domain with the first-kind boundary integral equation arising from the latter when constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Erick Schulz , Ralf Hiptmair

We discuss applications of a recently developed method for model reduction based on linear response theory of weakly coupled dynamical systems. We apply the weak coupling method to simple stochastic differential equations with slow and fast…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-21 Jeroen Wouters , Stamen I. Dolaptchiev , Valerio Lucarini , Ulrich Achatz

We formulate a Herglotz-type variational principle on a Lie algebroid and derive the corresponding Euler--Lagrange--Herglotz equations for a Lagrangian depending on an additional scalar variable $z$. This provides a geometric framework for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Alexandre Anahory Simoes , Leonardo Colombo

We apply functional analytical and variational methods in order to study well-posedness and qualitative properties of evolution equations on product Hilbert spaces. To this aim we introduce an algebraic formalism for matrices of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-05-13 Stefano Cardanobile , Delio Mugnolo

The minimization of a multiobjective Lagrangian with non-constant discount is studied. The problem is embedded into a set-valued framework and a corresponding definition of the value function is given. Bellman's optimality principle and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Daniela Visetti