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We prove new comparison principles for viscosity solutions of non-linear integro-differential equations. The operators to which the method applies include but are not limited to those of L\'evy-It\^o type. The main idea is to use an optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Nestor Guillen , Chenchen Mou , Andrzej Swiech

Using a generalized assumption of Osgood type, we prove a comparison result between viscosity sub and supersolutions of fully nonlinear, possibly strongly degenerate, parabolic equations under rather generale assumtpions. The principle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Papi

In this note, we demonstrate that a locally semiconvex viscosity supersolution to a possibly degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation is differentiable along the directions spanned by the range of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Salvatore Federico , Giorgio Ferrari , Mauro Rosestolato

We study nonlocal first-order equations arising in the theory of dislocations. We prove the existence and uniqueness of the solutions of these equations in the case of positive and negative velocities, under suitable regularity assumptions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-02-13 Guy Barles , Olivier Ley

It is well-known that solutions to the basic problem in the calculus of variations may fail to be Lipschitz continuous when the Lagrangian depends on t. Similarly, for viscosity solutions to time-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-02-16 Piermarco Cannarsa , Pierre Cardaliaguet

We study a class of parabolic equations having first order terms with superlinear (and subquadratic) growth. The model problem is the so-called viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation with superlinear Hamiltonian. We address the problem of having…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Martina Magliocca , Alessio Porretta

We prove a comparison result for viscosity solutions of second order parabolic partial differential equations in the Wasserstein space. The comparison is valid for semisolutions that are Lipschitz continuous in the measure in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Erhan Bayraktar , Ibrahim Ekren , Xin Zhang

We study viscosity solutions to a system of nonlinear degenerate parabolic partial integro-differential equations with interconnected obstacles. This type of problem occurs in the context of optimal switching problems when the dynamics of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Niklas L. P. Lundström , Marcus Olofsson , Thomas Önskog

In this article, we consider nonlocal Hamilton-Jacobi Equations on networks with Kirchhoff type conditions for the interior vertices and Dirichlet boundary conditions for the boundary ones: our aim is to provide general existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Guy Barles , Olivier Ley , Erwin Topp

Sharp temporal decay estimates are established for the gradient and time derivative of solutions to a viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation as well the associated Hamilton-Jacobi equation. Special care is given to the dependence of the estimates…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-11-11 Said Benachour , Matania Ben-Artzi , Philippe Laurençot

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

We consider the comparison principle for semicontinuous viscosity sub- and supersolutions of second order elliptic equations on the form $F(D^2 w,x) = 0$. A structural condition on the operator is presented that seems to unify the different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Karl K. Brustad

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

The aim of this article is twofold. First, we develop a unified framework for viscosity solutions to both first-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations and semilinear Hamilton-Jacobi equations driven by the idiosyncratic operator, defined on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Giacomo Ceccherini Silberstein , Daniela Tonon

We establish interior Lipschitz regularity for continuous viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear, conformally invariant, degenerate elliptic equations. As a by-product of our method, we also prove a weak form of the strong comparison…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-25 YanYan Li , Luc Nguyen , Bo Wang

The weak Harnack inequality for $L^p$-viscosity supersolutions of fully nonlinear second-order uniformly parabolic partial differential equations with unbounded coefficients and inhomogeneous terms is proved. It is shown that H\"older…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Shigeaki Koike , Andrzej Swiech , Shota Tateyama

This work is the third part of a program initiated in arXiv:2111.13258, arXiv:2302.06571 aiming at the development of an intrinsic geometric well-posedness theory for Hamilton-Jacobi equations related to controlled gradient flow problems in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Giovanni Conforti , Richard C. Kraaij , Luca Tamanini , Daniela Tonon

We prove existence, uniqueness, and regularity of viscosity solutions to the stationary and evolution obstacle problems defined by a class of nonlocal operators that are not stable-like and may have supercritical drift. We give sufficient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-03 Donatella Danielli , Arshak Petrosyan , Camelia A. Pop

We provide a stochastic representation for a general class of viscous Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations, which has convexity and superlinear nonlinearity in its gradient term, via a type of backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Andrea Cosso , Huyên Pham , Hao Xing

Using a recently introduced representation of the second order adjoint state as the solution of a function-valued backward stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE), we calculate the viscosity super- and subdifferential of the value…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Wilhelm Stannat , Lukas Wessels