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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

In this work we investigate regularity properties of a large class of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations with or without obstacles, which can be stochastically interpreted in form of a stochastic control system which nonlinear cost…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-08 Rainer Buckdahn , Jianhui Huang , Juan Li

In this article, a notion of viscosity solutions is introduced for first order path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations associated with optimal control problems for path-dependent differential equations. We identify the value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Jianjun Zhou

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

We prove that the viscosity solution to a Hamilton-Jacobi equation with a smooth convex Hamiltonian of the form $H(x,p)$ is differentiable with respect to the initial condition. Moreover, the directional G\^ateaux derivatives can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Enrique Zuazua

For Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations, with the standard definitions of viscosity super-solution and sub-solution, it is known that there is a comparison between any (viscosity) super-solutions and sub-solutions. This should be the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Yue Zhou , Xinwei Feng , Jiongmin Yong

The paper deals with a zero-sum differential game for a dynamical system which motion is described by a nonlinear delay differential equation under an initial condition defined by a piecewise continuous function. The corresponding Cauchy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Anton Plaksin

Here, we study the generalized semiconcavity property of viscosity solutions of the Neumann boundary value problem for Hamilton-Jacobi equations. In particular, we establish the global semiconcavity with a fractional modulus by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Hiroyoshi Mitake , Panrui Ni

In this article we present several results concerning uniqueness of $C$-viscosity and $L_{p}$-viscosity solutions for fully nonlinear parabolic equations. In case of the Isaacs equations we allow lower order terms to have just measurable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-28 N. V. Krylov

We establish a comparison principle for viscosity solutions of a class of nonlinear partial differential equations posed on the space of nonnegative finite measures, thereby extending recent results for PDEs defined on the Wasserstein space…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Ibrahim Ekren , Xihao He , Tianxu Lan , Xiaolu Tan

Here we study the nonnegative solutions of the viscous Hamilton-Jacobi problem \[ \left\{\begin{array} [c]{c}% u_{t}-\nu\Delta u+|\nabla u|^{q}=0, u(0)=u_{0}, \end{array} \right. \] in $Q_{\Omega,T}=\Omega\times\left(0,T\right) ,$ where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-25 Marie-Françoise Bidaut-Véron , Nguyen Anh Dao

Systems of Hamilton-Jacobi equations arise naturally when we study the optimal control problems with pathwise deterministic trajectories with random switching. In this work, we are interested in the large time behavior of weakly coupled…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Vinh Duc Nguyen

This paper introduces a notion of viscosity solutions for second order elliptic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations with infinite delay associated with infinite-horizon optimal control problems for stochastic differential equations with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Jianjun Zhou

In this paper we prove an approximation result for the viscosity solution of a system of semi-linear partial differential equations with continuous coefficients and nonlinear Neumann boundary condition. The approximation we use is based on…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-30 Khaled Bahlali , Lucian Maticiuc , Adrian Zalinescu

Unbounded stochastic control problems may lead to Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations whose Hamiltonians are not always defined, especially when the diffusion term is unbounded with respect to the control. We obtain existence and uniqueness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-10-09 Francesca Da Lio , Olivier Ley

We consider the following evolutionary Hamilton-Jacobi equation with initial condition: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \partial_tu(x,t)+H(x,u(x,t),\partial_xu(x,t))=0,\\ u(x,0)=\phi(x), \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $\phi(x)\in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Lin Wang , Jun Yan

The notes are an overview of part of the theory of pathwise weak solutions to two classes of scalar fully nonlinear first- and second-order degenerate parabolic partial differential equations with multiplicative rough time dependence, a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-12 Panagiotis E Souganidis

Here, we study the periodic homogenization problem of nonlinear weakly coupled systems of Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the convex setting. We establish a rate of convergence $O(\sqrt{\varepsilon})$ which is sharp.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Hiroyoshi Mitake , Panrui Ni

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 show strong uniform convergence of monotone P1 finite element methods to the viscosity solution of isotropic parabolic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations with mixed boundary conditions on unstructured meshes and for possibly degenerate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Bartosz Jaroszkowski , Max Jensen