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The paper deals with path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations with a coinvariant derivative which arise in investigations of optimal control problems and differential games for neutral-type systems in Hale's form. A viscosity (generalized)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Anton Plaksin

The aim of this paper is to develop a general method for constructing approximation schemes for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear pathwise stochastic partial differential equations, and for proving their convergence. Our results apply…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Benjamin Seeger

The present paper first aims to study the BV-type regularity for viscosity solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation \[ u_t(t,x)+H\big(D_{x} u(t,x)\big)~=~0\qquad\forall (t,x)\in ]0,\infty[\times\mathbb{R}^d \] with a coercive and uniformly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Stefano Bianchini , Prerona Dutta , Khai T. Nguyen

In this paper, we introduce Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations for Q-functions in continuous time optimal control problems with Lipschitz continuous controls. The standard Q-function used in reinforcement learning is shown to be the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Jeongho Kim , Insoon Yang

This paper presents a new narrow-stencil finite difference method for approximating the viscosity solution of second order fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations including Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. The proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Xiaobing Feng , Thomas Lewis

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

The numerical simulation of the inviscid Burgers' equation is often hindered by spurious oscillations near discontinuities. To mitigate this issue, a viscous term can be introduced, leading to the viscous Burgers' equation. In this work,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Lorenzo Agostini , Michel Fournié , Ghislain Haine

We present a simple algorithm to approximate the viscosity solution of Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations by means of an artificial deep neural network. The algorithm uses a stochastic gradient descent-based method to minimize the least square…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Richard Tsai , Alex Massucco

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

We consider Hamilton--Jacobi equations, where the Hamiltonian depends discontinuously on both the spatial and temporal location. Our main results are the existence and well--posedness of a viscosity solution to the Cauchy problem. We define…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Maria Coclite , Nils Henrik Risebro

The numerical realization of the dynamic programming principle for continuous-time optimal control leads to nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations which require the minimization of a nonlinear mapping over the set of admissible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-26 Dante Kalise , Axel Kröner , Karl Kunisch

We consider the homogenization of monotone systems of viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations with convex nonlinearities set in the stationary, ergodic setting. The primary focus of this paper is on collapsing systems which, as the microscopic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-09 Benjamin J. Fehrman

In this paper, we consider the following Hamilton-Jacobi equation with initial condition: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \partial_tu(x,t)+H(x,t,u(x,t),\partial_xu(x,t))=0, u(x,0)=\phi(x). \end{cases} \end{equation*} Under some assumptions…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Lin Wang , Jun Yan

Here, we study quantitative homogenization of first-order convex Hamilton-Jacobi equations with $(u/\varepsilon)$-periodic Hamiltonians which typically appear in dislocation dynamics. Firstly, we establish the optimal convergence rate by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Hiroyoshi Mitake , Panrui Ni , Hung V. Tran

We design fast numerical methods for Hamilton-Jacobi equations in density space (HJD), which arises in optimal transport and mean field games. We overcome the curse-of-infinite-dimensionality nature of HJD by proposing a generalized Hopf…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-07 Yat Tin Chow , Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher , Wotao Yin

We establish some perturbed minimization principles, and we develop a theory of subdifferential calculus, for functions defined on Riemannian manifolds. Then we apply these results to show existence and uniqueness of viscosity solutions to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Daniel Azagra , Juan Ferrera , Fernando Lopez-Mesas

Quantum algorithms to integrate nonlinear PDEs governing flow problems are challenging to discover but critical to enhancing the practical usefulness of quantum computing. We present here a near-optimal, robust, and end-to-end quantum…

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 introduce a framework for the discretization of a class of constrained Hamilton-Jacobi equations, a system coupling a Hamilton-Jacobi equation with a Lagrange multiplier determined by the constraint. The equation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Benoît Gaudeul , Hélène Hivert

Maximum entropy reinforcement learning (RL) methods have been successfully applied to a range of challenging sequential decision-making and control tasks. However, most of existing techniques are designed for discrete-time systems. As a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Jeongho Kim , Insoon Yang