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In this paper, we review the discrete Hamilton--Jacobi theory from a geometric point of view. In the discrete realm, the usual geometric interpretation of the Hamilton--Jacobi theory in terms of vector fields is not straightforward. Here,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 M. de León , C. Sardón

This paper is devoted to solving a class of second order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations in the Wasserstein space, associated with mean field control problems involving common noise. The well-posedness of viscosity solutions to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Hang Cheung , Ho Man Tai , Jinniao Qiu

The aim of this paper is twofold. - In the setting of RCD(K,$\infty$) metric measure spaces, we derive uniform gradient and Laplacian contraction estimates along solutions of the viscous approximation of the Hamilton--Jacobi equation. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Nicola Gigli , Luca Tamanini , Dario Trevisan

We propose a supervised learning scheme for the first order Hamilton--Jacobi PDEs in high dimensions. The scheme is designed by using the geometric structure of Wasserstein Hamiltonian flows via a density coupling strategy. It is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Jianbo Cui , Shu Liu , Haomin Zhou

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

The aim of this article is twofold. First, we develop a unified framework for viscosity solutions to both first-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations and semilinear Hamilton-Jacobi equations driven by the idiosyncratic operator, defined on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Giacomo Ceccherini Silberstein , Daniela Tonon

The linear transport equation allows to advect level-set functions to represent moving sharp interfaces in multiphase flows as zero level-sets. A recent development in computational fluid dynamics is to modify the linear transport equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Dieter Bothe , Mathis Fricke , Kohei Soga

In the paper, we consider a path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equation with coinvariant derivatives over the space of continuous functions. Such equations arise from optimal control problems and differential games for time-delay systems. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Mikhail Gomoyunov , Anton Plaksin

We establish the well-posedness of viscosity solutions for a class of semi-linear Hamilton-Jacobi equations set on the space of probability measures on the torus. In particular, we focus on equations with both common and idiosyncratic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Samuel Daudin , Joe Jackson , Benjamin Seeger

We study a class of Hamilton-Jacobi partial differential equations in the space of probability measures. In the first part of this paper, we prove comparison principles (implying uniqueness) for this class. In the second part, we establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Jin Feng , Toshio Mikami , Johannes Zimmer

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

We study the loss, recovery, and preservation of differentiability of time-dependent large deviation rate functions. This study is motivated by mean-field Gibbs-non-Gibbs transitions. The gradient of the rate-function evolves according to a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Richard C. Kraaij , Frank Redig , Willem B. van Zuijlen

We study the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for undiscounted exit time control problems with general nonnegative Lagrangians using the dynamic programming approach. We prove theorems characterizing the value function as the unique…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Malisoff

Characteristic curves of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation can be seen as action minimizing trajectories of fluid particles. However this description is valid only for smooth solutions. For nonsmooth "viscosity" solutions, which give rise to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-19 Konstantin Khanin , Andrei Sobolevski

We consider an optimal control on networks in the spirit of the works of Achdou et al. (2013) and Imbert et al. (2013). The main new feature is that there are entry (or exit) costs at the edges of the network leading to a possible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Manh-Khang Dao

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 analyze gradient flows with jumps generated by a finite set of complete vector fields in involution using some Radon measures $u\in \mathcal{U}_a$ as admissible perturbations. Both the evolution of a bounded gradient flow $\{x^u(t,\l)\in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-09 Saima Parveen , Constantin Varsan

We study a stochastic control problem on a bounded domain, which arises from a continuous-time optimal management model. Via the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation the value function is shown to be jointly continuous and to…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Ruoting Gong , Christian Houdré

This paper presents a methodology and numerical algorithms for constructing accelerated gradient flows on the space of probability distributions. In particular, we extend the recent variational formulation of accelerated gradient methods in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Amirhossein Taghvaei , Prashant G. Mehta

A methodology for solving two-point boundary value problems in phase space for Hamiltonian systems is presented. Using Hamilton-Jacobi theory in conjunction with the canonical transformation induced by the phase flow, we show that the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vincent M Guibout , Daniel J Scheeres