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We study the long-time behavior of the unique viscosity solution $u$ of the viscous Hamilton-Jacobi Equation $u_t-\Delta u + |Du|^m = f\hbox{in }\Omega\times (0,+\infty)$ with inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions, where $\Omega$ is a…

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This paper studies discrete-time two-person nonzero-sum linear quadratic stochastic games with random coefficients. Using convex variational analysis, we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of open-loop Nash…

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We derive a compatible discretization method that relies heavily on the underlying geometric structure, and obeys the topological sequences and commuting properties that are constructed. As a sample problem we consider the…

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We study a generalized vanishing discount problem for Hamilton--Jacobi equations, removing the standard monotonicity assumption, either in a global sense or when integrated against all Mather measures. Specifically, we consider \[ \lambda…

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We present stochastic homogenization results for viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations using a new argument which is based only on the subadditive structure of maximal subsolutions (solutions of the "metric problem"). This permits us to give…

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The widespread application of modern machine learning has increased the need for robust statistical algorithms. This work studies one such fundamental statistical measure known as the Tukey depth. We study the problem in the continuum…

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In this paper we propose a geometric Hamilton--Jacobi theory on a Nambu--Jacobi manifold. The advantange of a geometric Hamilton--Jacobi theory is that if a Hamiltonian vector field $X_H$ can be projected into a configuration manifold by…

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We view a conic optimization problem that has a unique solution as a map from its data to its solution. If sufficient regularity conditions hold at a solution point, namely that the implicit function theorem applies to the normalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-28 Enzo Busseti

Suppose that $H(x,u,p)$ is strictly decreasing in $u$ and satisfies Tonelli conditions in $p$. We show that each viscosity solution of $H(x,u,u_x)=0$ can be reached by many viscosity solutions of $$ w_t+H(x,w,w_x)=0, $$ in a finite time.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Kaizhi Wang , Jun Yan , Kai Zhao

Recent observations have been made that bridge splitting methods arising from optimization, to the Hopf and Lax formulas for Hamilton-Jacobi Equations with Hamiltonians $H(p)$. This has produced extremely fast algorithms in computing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Alex Tong Lin , Yat Tin Chow , Stanley Osher

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…

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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…

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We examine Hamilton-Jacobi equations driven by fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic operators in the presence of superlinear Hamiltonians. By exploring the Ishii-Jensen inequality, we prove that viscosity solutions are locally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-28 David Jesus , Edgard A. Pimentel , José Miguel Urbano

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.

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We introduce the proximal optimal transport divergence, a novel discrepancy measure that interpolates between information divergences and optimal transport distances via an infimal convolution formulation. This divergence provides a…

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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 establish the stability of metric viscosity solutions to first-order Hamilton--Jacobi equations under Gromov--Hausdorff convergence. Our proof combines a characterization of metric viscosity solutions via quadratic distance functions…

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