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We consider continuous-state and continuous-time control problems where the admissible trajectories of the system are constrained to remain on a union of half-planes which share a common straight line. This set will be named a junction. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-10 Salomé Oudet

We argue that Hamilton-Jacobi equations provide a convenient and intuitive approach for studying the large-scale behavior of mean-field disordered systems. This point of view is illustrated on the problem of inference of a rank-one matrix.…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Jean-Christophe Mourrat

In optimal control problems of control-affine systems, whose solutions are bang-bang or singular type, verification of optimality using the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation involves the computation of partial derivatives of switching…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Victor Riquelme

We present a simplified model of data flow on processors in a high performance computing framework involving computations necessitating inter-processor communications. From this ordinary differential model, we take its asymptotic limit,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Richard C Barnard , Kai Huang , Cory Hauck

We provide a quick overview of various calculus tools and of the main results concerning the heat flow on compact metric measure spaces, with applications to spaces with lower Ricci curvature bounds. Topics include the Hopf-Lax semigroup…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-16 Luigi Ambrosio , Nicola Gigli , Giuseppe Savaré

This paper studies Hamilton-Jacobi equations of evolution type defined in a general metric space. We give a notion of a solution through optimal principles and establish a unique existence theorem of the solution for initial value problems.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-30 Atsushi Nakayasu

Beginning with a relativistic action principle for the irrotational flow of collisionless matter, we compute higher order corrections to the Zel'dovich approximation by deriving a nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 D. S. Salopek , J. M. Stewart , K. M. Croudace

In this paper, we guarantee the existence and uniqueness (in the almost everywhere sense) of the solution to a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation with gradient constraint and a partial integro-differential operator whose L\'evy measure…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Mark Kelbert , Harold A. Moreno-Franco

We construct the classical mechanics associated with a conformally flat Riemannian metric on a compact, n-dimensional manifold without boundary. The corresponding gradient Ricci flow equation turns out to equal the time-dependent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-16 S. Abraham , P. Fernandez de Cordoba , J. M. Isidro , J. L. G. Santander

Given a coercive Hamiltonian which is quasi-convex with respect to the gradient variable and periodic with respect to time and space at least "far away from the origin", we consider the solution of the Cauchy problem of the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-25 Giulio Galise , Cyril Imbert , Régis Monneau

We develop a discrete analogue of Hamilton-Jacobi theory in the framework of discrete Hamiltonian mechanics. The resulting discrete Hamilton-Jacobi equation is discrete only in time. We describe a discrete analogue of Jacobi's solution and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-08-15 Tomoki Ohsawa , Anthony M. Bloch , Melvin Leok

We prove that the entropy solution to a scalar conservation law posed on the real line with a flux that is discontinuous at one point (in the space variable) coincides with the derivative of the solution to a Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Nicolas Forcadel , Cyril Imbert , Regis Monneau

This paper investigates the convergence properties of the upwind difference scheme for the Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation, a central partial differential equation in optimal control theory. First, assuming the existence of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Daisuke Inoue , Yuji Ito , Takahito Kashiwabara , Norikazu Saito , Hiroaki Yoshida

This work provides a comparison principle for viscosity solutions to boundary value problems on (partially) bounded, cylindrical spaces. The comparison principle is based on a test function framework, that allows for the simultaneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Serena Della Corte , Fabian Fuchs , Richard C. Kraaij , Max Nendel

We introduce a variation of the classical Ricci flow equation that modifies the unit volume constraint of that equation to a scalar curvature constraint. The resulting equations are named the Conformal Ricci Flow Equations because of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Arthur E. Fischer

The aim of this paper is to understand the relation between the canonical Hamilton-Jacobi equation for Maxwell's electrodynamics, which is an equation with variational derivatives for a functional of field configurations, and the covariant…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-01 Monika E. Pietrzyk , Cécile Barbachoux , Joseph Kouneiher

We revisit the relation between the gradient-flow equations and Hamilton's equations in information geometry. By regarding the gradient-flow equations as Huygens' equations in geometric optics, we have related the gradient flows to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Tatsuaki Wada , Antonio M. Scarfone , Hiroshi Matsuzoe

In this paper we establish H\"older continuity estimates for viscosity solutions to first order Hamilton-Jacobi equations linked to linear control systems satisfying the Kalman rank condition. Our model Hamiltonians are non-convex in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Megan Griffin-Pickering , Alpár R. Mészáros

In this paper we present a general framework that allows one to study discretization of certain dynamical systems. This generalizes earlier work on discretization of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems on tangent bundles and cotangent…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vincent M. Guibout , Anthony M. Bloch

This paper is a survey of the generalized Hamiltonian gradient flow (GHGF) framework for Hamilton-Jacobi equations, with an emphasis on the propagation of singularities and its connections to weak KAM theory, optimal transport and mean…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Wei Cheng , Jiahui Hong