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We study the regularity properties of integro-partial differential equations of Hamilton-Jocobi-Bellman type with terminal condition, which can be interpreted through a stochastic control system, composed of a forward and a backward…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-10-10 Shuai Jing

We establish new Hoelder and Lipschitz estimates for viscosity solutions of a large class of elliptic and parabolic nonlinear integro-differential equations, by the classical Ishii-Lions's method. We thus extend the Hoelder regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-09 Guy Barles , Emmanuel Chasseigne , Adina Ciomaga , Cyril Imbert

We study a class of non linear integro-differential equations on the Wasserstein space related to the optimal control of McKean--Vlasov jump-diffusions. We develop an intrinsic notion of viscosity solutions that does not rely on the lifting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-03 Matteo Burzoni , Vincenzo Ignazio , A. Max Reppen , H. Mete Soner

In this paper, we show that the value functions of mean field control problems with common noise are the unique viscosity solutions to fully second-order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations, in a Crandall-Lions-like framework. We allow the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Erhan Bayraktar , Hang Cheung , Ibrahim Ekren , Jinniao Qiu , Ho Man Tai , Xin Zhang

The notion of viscosity solutions of scalar fully nonlinear partial differential equations of second order provides a framework in which startling comparison and uniqueness theorems, existence theorems, and theorems about continuous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Michael G. Crandall , Hitoshi Ishii , Pierre-Louis Lions

Much effort has been spent in recent years on restoring uniqueness of McKean-Vlasov SDEs with non-smooth coefficients. As a typical instance, the velocity field is assumed to be bounded and measurable in its space variable and…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Victor Marx

This paper is about elliptic and parabolic partial differential operators with discontinuities in the gradient which are compatible with a Finsler norm in a sense to be made precise. Examples of this type of problems arise in a number of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Peter S. Morfe , Panagiotis E. Souganidis

We prove a rate of convergence for the $N$-particle approximation of a second-order partial differential equation in the space of probability measures, like the Master equation or Bellman equation of mean-field control problem under common…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Maximilien Germain , Huyên Pham , Xavier Warin

We establish the equivalence between weak and viscosity solutions to the nonhomogeneous double phase equation with lower-order term $$ -{\rm div}(|Du|^{p-2}Du+a(x)|Du|^{q-2}Du)=f(x,u,Du),\quad 1<p\le q<\infty, a(x)\ge0. $$ We find some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Yuzhou Fang , Vicentiu D. Radulescu , Chao Zhang

We study a singular perturbation problem for second-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the Wasserstein space. Specifically, we characterize the behavior of the solutions as the perturbation parameter $\varepsilon$ tends to zero. The notion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Antonios Zitridis

Initial-boundary value problems for second order fully nonlinear PDEs with Caputo time fractional derivatives of order less than one are considered in the framework of viscosity solution theory. Associated boundary conditions are Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Tokinaga Namba

This paper is concerned with a comparison principle for viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ), -Bellman (HJB), and -Isaacs (HJI) equations for general classes of partial integro-differential operators. Our approach innovates in three…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Serena Della Corte , Fabian Fuchs , Richard C. Kraaij , Max Nendel

In this article, we adapt the definition of viscosity solutions to the obstacle problem for fully nonlinear path-dependent PDEs with data uniformly continuous in $(t,\omega)$, and generator Lipschitz continuous in $(y,z,\gamma)$. We prove…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Ibrahim Ekren

For a class of fully nonlinear equations having second order operators which may be singular or degenerate when the gradient of the solutions vanishes, and having first order terms with power growth, we prove the existence and uniqueness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-19 Isabeau Birindelli , Francoise Demengel , Fabiana Leoni

We establish regularity results for viscosity solutions to a class of quasilinear parabolic equations exhibiting nonhomogeneous degeneracy or singularity (a double phase regime) of the form \[ u_t - \big(|Du|^{\mathfrak{p}} +…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Junior da Silva Bessa , João Vitor da Silva , Ginaldo de Santana Sá

In our previous paper [Ekren, Touzi and Zhang (2015)], we introduced a notion of viscosity solutions for fully nonlinear path-dependent PDEs, extending the semilinear case of Ekren et al. [Ann. Probab. 42 (2014) 204-236], which satisfies a…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Ibrahim Ekren , Nizar Touzi , Jianfeng Zhang

Motivated by important applications in image processing, we study a class of second-order geometric quasilinear hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs). This is inspired by the recent development of second-order damping systems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Guozhi Dong , Michael Hintermüller , Ye Zhang

This paper develops a comparison theorem for viscosity solutions of a new class of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations, which is used to solve the separated problem governed by the K-S equation in the Wasserstein space. A distinctive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Hexiang Wan , Jie Xiong

In this paper we study viscosity solutions of semilinear parabolic equations in the Heisenberg group. We show uniqueness of viscosity solutions with exponential growth at space infinity. We also study Lipschitz and horizontal convexity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Qing Liu , Juan Manfredi , Xiaodan Zhou

This paper is concerned with semiconcavity of viscosity solutions for a class of degenerate elliptic integro-differential equations in $\mathbb R^n$. This class of equations includes Bellman equations containing operators of L\'evy-It\^o…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Chenchen Mou