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We establish a convergence theorem for Crandall-Lions viscosity solutions to path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDEs. Our proof is based on a novel convergence theorem for dynamic sublinear expectations and the stochastic representation…

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

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This paper is concerned with monotone (time-explicit) finite difference schemes associated with first order Hamilton-Jacobi equations posed on a junction. They extend the schemes recently introduced by Costeseque, Lebacque and Monneau…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Jessica Guerand , Marwa Koumaiha

In this paper, we study the existence and uniqueness of viscosity solutions to a kind of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations combined with algebra equations. This HJB equation is related to a stochastic optimal control problem for which…

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This investigation is dedicated to a two-player zero-sum stochastic differential game (SDG), where a cost function is characterized by a backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with a continuous and monotonic generator regarding…

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In this paper, we prove a comparison result for semi-continuous viscosity solutions of a class of second-order PDEs in the Wasserstein space. This allows us to remove the Lipschitz continuity assumption with respect to the…

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We consider the numerical solution of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations arising in stochastic control theory. We introduce a class of monotone approximation schemes relying on monotone interpolation. These schemes converge under very weak…

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We address two major challenges in scientific machine learning (SciML): interpretability and computational efficiency. We increase the interpretability of certain learning processes by establishing a new theoretical connection between…

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Optimal control and the associated second-order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation are studied for unbounded stochastic evolution systems in Hilbert spaces. A new notion of viscosity solution, featured by absence of B-continuity, is…

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Here, we consider anisotropic degenerate parabolic-hyperbolic equations and degenerate quasilinear Hamilton-Jacobi equations. We prove the equivalence of two notions of entropy and viscosity solutions of two equations, and apply it to…

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In this paper we study an approximation scheme for an Hamilton-Jacobi equation of Eikonal type defined on a network. We introduce an appropriate notion of viscosity solution for this class of equations (see \cite{sc}) and we prove that an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-14 Fabio Camilli , Adriano Festa , Dirk Schieborn

We use the adjoint methods to study the static Hamilton-Jacobi equations and to prove the speed of convergence for those equations. The main new ideas are to introduce adjoint equations corresponding to the formal linearizations of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-04 Hung Vinh Tran

We present a simple and easy to implement method for the numerical solution of a rather general class of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations. In many cases, the considered problems have only a viscosity solution, to which, fortunately,…

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In this paper, we establish the higher order convergence rates in periodic homogenization of viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations, which is convex and grows quadratically in the gradient variable. We observe that although the nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Sunghan Kim , Ki-Ahm Lee

This paper deals with junction conditions for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations for finite horizon control problems on multi-domains. We consider two different cases where the final cost is continuous or lower semi-continuous. In the…

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We propose an extension of the Dubrovin-Zhang perturbative approach to the study of normal forms for non-Hamiltonian integrable scalar conservation laws. The explicit computation of the first few corrections leads to the conjecture that…

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In this paper, a class of high order numerical schemes is proposed for solving Hamilton-Jacobi (H-J) equations. This work is regarded as an extension of our previous work for nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations, see Christlieb et al.…

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