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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

We present a theoretical method to generate a highly accurate {\em time-independent} Hamiltonian governing the finite-time behavior of a time-periodic system. The method exploits infinitesimal unitary transformation steps, from which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-30 Michael Vogl , Pontus Laurell , Aaron D. Barr , Gregory A. Fiete

In this paper, we introduce Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations for Q-functions in continuous time optimal control problems with Lipschitz continuous controls. The standard Q-function used in reinforcement learning is shown to be the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Jeongho Kim , Insoon Yang

Optimal control and the associated second-order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation are studied for unbounded stochastic evolution systems in Hilbert spaces. A new notion of viscosity solution, featured by absence of B-continuity, is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Shanjian Tang , Jianjun Zhou

We obtain new quantitative estimates of the vanishing viscosity approximation for time-dependent, degenerate, Hamilton-Jacobi equations that are neither concave nor convex in the gradient and Hessian entries of the form $\partial_t…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Alekos Cecchin , Alessandro Goffi

In the present article, we study the numerical approximation of a system of Hamilton-Jacobi and transport equations arising in geometrical optics. We consider a semi-Lagrangian scheme. We prove the well posedness of the discrete problem and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-20 Yves Achdou , Fabio Camilli , Lucilla Corrias

To contrast different generators for flow equations for Hamiltonians and to discuss the dependence of physical quantities on unitarily equivalent, but effectively different initial Hamiltonians, a numerically solvable model is considered…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Stauber , A. Mielke

A new concept of viscosity solutions, namely, the Hausdorff continuous viscosity solution for the Hamilton-Jacobi equation is defined and investigated. It is shown that the main ideas within the classical theory of continuous viscosity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-12-04 Roumen Anguelov , Froduald Minani

Motivated by optimal control problems and differential games for functional differential equations of retarded type, the paper deals with a Cauchy problem for a path-dependent Hamilton--Jacobi equation with a right-end boundary condition.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Mikhail I. Gomoyunov , Nikolai Yu. Lukoyanov , Anton R. Plaksin

We study the qualitative homogenization of second order viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations in space-time stationary ergodic random environments. Assuming that the Hamiltonian is convex and superquadratic in the momentum variable (gradient)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Wenjia Jing , Panagiotis E. Souganidis , Hung V. Tran

Metafluid dynamics was investigated within Hamilton-Jacobi formalism and the existence of the hidden gauge symmetry was analyzed. The obtained results are in agreement with those of Faddeev-Jackiw approach.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Dumitru Baleanu

We prove the uniqueness of the viscosity solution to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation associated with a Bolza problem of the Calculus of Variations, assuming that the Lagrangian is autonomous, continuous, superlinear, and satisfies the usual…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 G. Dal Maso , H. Frankowska

Found all equivalence classes for electromagnetic potentials and space-time metrics of Stackel spaces, provided that the equations of motion of the classical charged test particles are integrated by the method of complete separation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-14 Valeriy Obukhov

This paper proposes a new framework to model control systems in which a dynamic friction occurs. The model consists in a controlled differential inclusion with a discontinuous right hand side, which still preserves existence and uniqueness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Fabio Tedone , Michele Palladino

Optimal control of diffusion processes is intimately connected to the problem of solving certain Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. Building on recent machine learning inspired approaches towards high-dimensional PDEs, we investigate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Nikolas Nüsken , Lorenz Richter

This study investigated the stability of Hamilton--Jacobi equation on general metric spaces with a perturbation in some whole space. This type of stability appears in the domain perturbation problem. We find that the stability holds when…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Shimpei Makida , Atsushi Nakayasu

We study the exploratory Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation arising from the entropy-regularized exploratory control problem, which was formulated by Wang, Zariphopoulou and Zhou (J. Mach. Learn. Res., 21, 2020) in the context of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Wenpin Tang , Paul Yuming Zhang , Xun Yu Zhou

Nonconservative evolution problems describe irreversible processes and dissipative effects in a broad variety of phenomena. Such problems are often characterised by a conservative part, which can be modelled as a Hamiltonian term, and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Damiano Lombardi , Cecilia Pagliantini

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

Viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear, local or non local, Hamilton-Jacobi equations with a super-quadratic growth in the gradient variable are proved to be H\"older continuous, with a modulus depending only on the growth of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-18 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Catherine Rainer