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Effective Hamiltonians arise in several problems, including homogenization of Hamilton--Jacobi equations, nonlinear control systems, Hamiltonian dynamics, and Aubry--Mather theory. In Aubry--Mather theory, related objects, Mather measures,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Diogo A. Gomes , Xianjin Yang

In this work, we study gradient solitons to general geometric flows. Our approach is to understand what assumptions need to be made about a flow in order to extend results about Ricci solitons. In this direction, we identify an identity,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Antonio W. Cunha , Antonio N. Silva , William Wylie

We introduce a method for approximating viscosity solutions of stationary degenerate elliptic Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equations on bounded domains arising in stochastic exit-time control. Viscosity enforcement is formulated as a min--max…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Alen E. Golpashin , Gokul Puthumanaillam , Melkior Ornik , Bruce A. Conway

We investigate the large-time behavior of the value functions of the optimal control problems on the $n$-dimensional torus which appear in the dynamic programming for the system whose states are governed by random changes. From the point of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-13 Hiroyoshi Mitake , Hung V. Tran

In this paper we investigate a path dependent optimal control problem on the process space with both drift and volatility controls, with possibly degenerate volatility. The dynamic value function is characterized by a fully nonlinear second…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Jianjun Zhou , Nizar Touzi , Jianfeng Zhang

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

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…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-24 M. de León , C. Sardón

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Hong-Bin Chen , Jiaming Xia

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

Motivated by a constrained minimization problem, it is studied the gradient flows with respect to Hessian Riemannian metrics induced by convex functions of Legendre type. The first result characterizes Hessian Riemannian structures on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Felipe Alvarez , Jérôme Bolte , Olivier Brahic

We consider Hamilton--Jacobi equations, where the Hamiltonian depends discontinuously on both the spatial and temporal location. Our main results are the existence and well--posedness of a viscosity solution to the Cauchy problem. We define…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Maria Coclite , Nils Henrik Risebro

We consider Hamiltonians associated to optimal control problems for affine systems on the torus. They are not coercive and are possibly unbounded from below in the direction of the drift of the system. The main assumption is the strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Martino Bardi

We introduce the notion of mean viability for controlled stochastic differential equations and establish counterparts of Nagumo's classical viability theorems (necessary and sufficient conditions for mean viability). As an application, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Christian Keller

We present a new formulation for the computation of solutions of a class of Hamilton Jacobi Bellman (HJB) equations on closed smooth surfaces of co-dimension one. For the class of equations considered in this paper, the viscosity solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Lindsay Martin , Richard Tsai

We obtain the comparison principle for discontinuous viscosity sub- and supersolutions of nonlocal Hamilton-Jacobi equations, with superlinear and coercive gradient terms. The nonlocal terms are integro-differential operators in L\'evy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Adina Ciomaga , Tri Minh Le , Olivier Ley , Erwin Topp

We introduce a novel algorithm that converges to level-set convex viscosity solutions of high-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi equations. The algorithm is applicable to a broad class of curvature motion PDEs, as well as a recently developed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Jeff Calder , Wonjun Lee

In this paper, we derive the lower bounds for the gradients of viscosity solutions to the Hamilton--Jacobi equation, where the convex Hamiltonian depends on the unknown function. We obtain gradient estimates using two different methods.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Kazuya Hirose

We present a framework for efficient extraction of the viscosity solutions of nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi equations with convex Hamiltonians. These viscosity solutions play a central role in areas such as front propagation, mean-field games,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Shi Jin , Nana Liu

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…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Martin Molina-Fructuoso , Ryan Murray

We show that non-dominated sorting of a sequence of i.i.d. random variables in Euclidean space has a continuum limit that corresponds to solving a Hamilton-Jacobi equation involving the probability density function of the random variables.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-18 Jeff Calder , Selim Esedoglu , Alfred O. Hero