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In this paper, we obtain the strong comparison principle and Hopf Lemma for locally Lipschitz viscosity solutions to a class of nonlinear degenerate elliptic operators of the form $\nabla^2 \psi + L(x,\nabla \psi)$, including the conformal…

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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

As a continuation of Rabei et al. work [11], the Hamilton- Jacobi partial differential equation is generalized to be applicable for systems containing fractional derivatives. The Hamilton- Jacobi function in configuration space is obtained…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Eqab M. Rabei , Bashar S. Ababneh

We establish the well-posedness of viscosity solutions for a class of semi-linear Hamilton-Jacobi equations set on the space of probability measures on the torus. In particular, we focus on equations with both common and idiosyncratic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Samuel Daudin , Joe Jackson , Benjamin Seeger

The aim of this work is to revisit viscosity solutions' theory for second-order elliptic integro-differential equations and to provide a general framework which takes into account solutions with arbitrary growth at infinity. Our main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-09-30 Guy Barles , Cyril Imbert

A Hamilton-Jacobi equation with Caputo's time-fractional derivative of order less than one is considered. The notion of a viscosity solution is introduced to prove unique existence of a solution to the initial value problem under periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Yoshikazu Giga , Tokinaga Namba

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 collect examples of boundary-value problems of Dirichlet and Dirichlet-Neumann type which we found instructive when designing and analysing numerical methods for fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations. In particular, our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Max Jensen , Iain Smears

In this paper, we discuss all the possible pairs $(u,c)\in C(M,\mathbb R)\times\mathbb R$ solving (in the sense of viscosity) the contact Hamilton-Jacobi equation \[ H (x, d_xu, u) = c,\quad x\in M \] of which $M$ is a closed manifold and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Gengyu Liu , Jianlu Zhang

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

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 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

This paper is devoted to solving a class of second order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations in the Wasserstein space, associated with mean field control problems involving common noise. The well-posedness of viscosity solutions to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Hang Cheung , Ho Man Tai , Jinniao Qiu

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

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Giovanni Conforti , Richard C. Kraaij , Daniela Tonon

We examine Hamilton-Jacobi equations driven by fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic operators in the presence of superlinear Hamiltonians. By exploring the Ishii-Jensen inequality, we prove that viscosity solutions are locally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-28 David Jesus , Edgard A. Pimentel , José Miguel Urbano

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

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

We propose a splitting approach to solve the second-order Hamilton--Jacobi equation, reducing it to a heat step and a purely first-order step. The latter is implemented using a gradient value policy iteration algorithm, enabling efficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Alain Bensoussan , Thien P. B. Nguyen , Minh-Binh Tran , Son N. T. Tu

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,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Shi Jin , Nana Liu

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