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In this paper we establish a rigorous gradient flow structure for one-dimensional Kimura equations with respect to some Wasserstein-Shahshahani optimal transport geometry. This is achieved by first conditioning the underlying stochastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Jean-Baptiste Casteras , Léonard Monsaingeon

We prove comparison principle for viscosity solutions of a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation in a strong coupling regime considering a stationary and a time-dependent version of the equation. We consider a Hamiltonian that has a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Serena Della Corte , Richard C. Kraaij

We derive a new class of non-linear expectations from first-principles deterministic chaotic dynamics. The homogenization of the system's skew-adjoint microscopic generator is achieved using the spectral theory of transfer operators for…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Qian Qi

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 prove the convergence of a Wasserstein gradient flow of a free energy in inhomogeneous media. Both the energy and media can depend on the spatial variable in a fast oscillatory manner. In particular, we show that the gradient-flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Yuan Gao , Nung Kwan Yip

We establish a comparison principle for viscosity solutions of a class of nonlinear partial differential equations posed on the space of nonnegative finite measures, thereby extending recent results for PDEs defined on the Wasserstein space…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Ibrahim Ekren , Xihao He , Tianxu Lan , Xiaolu Tan

In recent work [1] we uncovered intriguing connections between Otto's characterisation of diffusion as entropic gradient flow [16] on one hand and large-deviation principles describing the microscopic picture (Brownian motion) on the other.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Stefan Adams , Nicolas Dirr , Mark A. Peletier , Johannes Zimmer

Systems of Hamilton-Jacobi equations arise naturally when we study the optimal control problems with pathwise deterministic trajectories with random switching. In this work, we are interested in the large time behavior of weakly coupled…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Vinh Duc Nguyen

It is well-known that many diffusion equations can be recast as Wasserstein gradient flows. Moreover, in recent years, by modifying the Wasserstein distance appropriately, this technique has been transferred to further evolution equations…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Kaveh Bashiri , Anton Bovier

The spatial gradient expansion of the generating functional was recently developed by Parry, Salopek, and Stewart to solve the Hamiltonian constraint in Einstein-Hamilton-Jacobi theory for gravitationally interacting dust and scalar fields.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 B. K. Darian

We show that the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation evolves as the gradient flow of the entropy with respect to a suitable geometry on the space of probability measures which takes the collision process into account. This gradient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Matthias Erbar

We study non-convex Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the presence of gradient constraints and produce new, optimal, regularity results for the solutions. A distinctive feature of those equations regards the existence of a lower bound to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Héctor A. Chang-Lara , Edgard A. Pimentel

We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the Dirichlet problem for Hamilton-Jacobi equations with large drift terms, where the drift terms are given by the Hamiltonian vector fields of Hamiltonian $H$. This is an attempt to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Hitoshi Ishii , Taiga Kumagai

We prove the comparison principle for viscosity sub and super solutions of degenerate nonlocal operators with general nonlocal gradient nonlinearities. The proofs apply to purely Hamilton-Jacobi equations of order $0<s<1$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Gonzalo Dávila

A framework for statistical-mechanical analysis of quantum Hamiltonians is introduced. The approach is based upon a gradient flow equation in the space of Hamiltonians such that the eigenvectors of the initial Hamiltonian evolve toward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-13 Dorje C. Brody , David C. P. Ellis , Darryl D. Holm

In this paper we focus on energy flows in simple quantum systems. This is achieved by concentrating on the quantum Hamilton-Jacobi equation. We show how this equation appears in the standard quantum formalism in essentially three different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 B. J. Hiley , D. Robson

The Hamilton-Jacobi equation of classical mechanics is approached as a model reduction of conservative particle mechanics where the velocity degrees-of-freedom are eliminated. This viewpoint allows an extension of the association of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Amit Acharya

We consider a general optimal control problem in the setting of gradient flows. Two approximations of the problem are presented, both relying on the variational reformulation of gradient-flow dynamics via the Weighted-Energy-Dissipation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Takeshi Fukao , Ulisse Stefanelli , Riccardo Voso

The method of flow equations is applied to QED on the light front. Requiring that the particle number conserving terms in the Hamiltonian are considered to be diagonal and the other terms off-diagonal an effective Hamiltonian is obtained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Elena Gubankova

The technique of Hamiltonian flow equations is applied to the canonical Hamiltonian of quantum electrodynamics in the front form and 3+1 dimensions. The aim is to generate a bound state equation in a quantum field theory, particularly to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Elena L. Gubankova , Hans-Christian Pauli , Franz J. Wegner , Gabor Papp