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A new algorithm for time dependent Hamilton Jacobi equations on networks, based on semi Lagrangian scheme, is proposed. It is based on the definition of viscosity solution for this kind of problems recently given in. A thorough convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Elisabetta Carlini , Antonio Siconolfi

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

We discuss a class of time-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations, where an unknown function of time is intended to keep the maximum of the solution to the constant value 0. Our main result is that the full problem has a unique viscosity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-25 Sepideh Mirrahimi , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

In this article, a notion of viscosity solutions is introduced for second order path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (PHJB) equations associated with optimal control problems for path-dependent stochastic differential equations. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Jianjun Zhou

In this work we present a formal generalization of the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism, recently developed for singular systems, to include the case of Lagrangians containing variables which are elements of Berezin algebra. We derive the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. M. Pimentel , R. G. Teixeira , J. L. Tomazelli

We study random homogenization of second-order, degenerate and quasilinear Hamilton-Jacobi equations which are positively homogeneous in the gradient. Included are the equations of forced mean curvature motion and others describing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-29 Scott Armstrong , Pierre Cardaliaguet

In this paper, we establish the convergence of solutions to the viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation (with a Tonelli Hamiltonian): \[ \lambda u +H(x, du)=\varepsilon(\lambda)\Delta u,\quad \lambda>0 \] as $\lambda\rightarrow 0_+$, once the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Zibo Wang , Jianlu Zhang

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

We provide a general result concerning the homogenization of nonconvex viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the stationary, ergodic setting. In particular, we show that homogenization occurs for a non-empty set of points within every level…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-24 Benjamin J. Fehrman

We show that if a Hamilton-Jacobi equation admits a differentiable solution whose gradient is Lipschitz, then this solution is the unique semi-concave weak solution. Our result does not rely on any convexity (nor concavity) assumptions on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Victor Issa

We extend the Barles-Perthame procedure of semi-relaxed limits of viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations of the type f - lambda H f = h. The convergence result allows for equations on a `converging sequence of spaces' as well as…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Richard C. Kraaij

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 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,…

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We study the large time behavior of Lipschitz continuous, possibly unbounded, viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations in the whole space $\R^N$. The associated ergodic problem has Lipschitz continuous solutions if the analogue of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-08-30 Guy Barles , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

We discuss an extension of the Hamilton-Jacobi theory to nonholonomic mechanics with a particular interest in its application to exactly integrating the equations of motion. We give an intrinsic proof of a nonholonomic analogue of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-15 Tomoki Ohsawa , Anthony M. Bloch

We consider a path-dependent Hamilton--Jacobi equation with coinvariant derivatives over the space of continuous functions. We prove two uniqueness results for viscosity (generalized) solutions defined in terms of coinvariantly smooth test…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Mikhail I. Gomoyunov

In this paper, we study the family of inhomogeneous discounted Hamilton-Jacobi equations \begin{equation}\label{hjs1} \lambda(x)u+h(x,d_x u)=c \quad \tag{$\ast$} \end{equation} on a closed manifold $M$ with a non-identically vanishing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Liang Jin , Jun Yan , Kai Zhao

We generalize the Hamilton-Jacobi formulation for higher order singular systems and obtain the equations of motion as total differential equations. To do this we first study the constraint structure present in such systems.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 B. M. Pimentel , R. G. Teixeira

We study continuous dependence estimates for viscous Hamilton- Jacobi equations defined on a network Gamma. Given two Hamilton-Jacobi equations, we prove an estimate of the C2-norm of the difference between the corresponding solutions in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Fabio Camilli , Claudio Marchi