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We propose a new approach to the numerical solution of ergodic problems arising in the homogenization of Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations. It is based on a Newton-like method for solving inconsistent systems of nonlinear equations, coming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Simone Cacace , Fabio Camilli

We study the problem of optimal portfolio selection under stochastic volatility within a continuous time reinforcement learning framework with portfolio constraints. Exploration is modeled through entropy-regularized relaxed controls, where…

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We provide some new integral estimates for solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations and we discuss several consequences, ranging from $L^p$-rates of convergence for the vanishing viscosity approximation to regularizing effects for the Cauchy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Fabio Camilli , Alessandro Goffi , Cristian Mendico

We propose novel connections between several neural network architectures and viscosity solutions of some Hamilton--Jacobi (HJ) partial differential equations (PDEs) whose Hamiltonian is convex and only depends on the spatial gradient of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-05 Jérôme Darbon , Tingwei Meng

In this paper we use the theory of viscosity solutions for Hamilton-Jacobi equations to study propagation phenomena in kinetic equations. We perform the hydrodynamic limit of some kinetic models thanks to an adapted WKB ansatz. Our models…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-10 Emeric Bouin

We study a critical case of Coagulation-Fragmentation equations with multiplicative coagulation kernel and constant fragmentation kernel. Our method is based on the study of viscosity solutions to a new singular Hamilton-Jacobi equation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Hung V. Tran , Truong-Son Van

We introduce a method for approximating viscosity solutions of stationary degenerate elliptic Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equations on bounded domains arising in stochastic exit-time control. Viscosity enforcement is formulated as a min--max…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Alen E. Golpashin , Gokul Puthumanaillam , Melkior Ornik , Bruce A. Conway

Quantum scientific computing is to solve engineering and science problems such as simulation and optimization on quantum computers. Solving ordinary and partial differential equations (PDEs) is essential in simulations. However, existing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Eunsik Choi , Jungin E. Kim , Xueling Lu , Yan Wang

We construct an explicit representation of viscosity solutions of the Cauchy problem for the Hamilton-Jacobi equation $(H,\sigma)$ on a given domain $\Omega= (0,T)\times \R^n.$ It is known that, if the Hamiltonian $H = H(t,p)$ is not a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-26 Nguyen Hoang , Nguyen Mau Nam

We study the qualitative homogenization of second order viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations in space-time stationary ergodic random environments. Assuming that the Hamiltonian is convex and superquadratic in the momentum variable (gradient)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Wenjia Jing , Panagiotis E. Souganidis , Hung V. Tran

The purpose of this paper is to describe the numerical solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) for an optimal control problem for quantum spin systems. This HJB equation is a first order nonlinear partial differential equation defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-05 Srinivas Sridharan , Matthew R. James

The most widely used approach for simulating the dynamics of time-dependent Hamiltonians via quantum computation depends on the quantum-classical hybrid variational quantum time evolution algorithm, in which ordinary differential equations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Minchen Qiao , Zi-Ming Li , Yu-xi Liu

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 study policy iteration (PI) for deterministic infinite-horizon discounted optimal control problems, whose value function is characterized by a stationary Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation. At the PDE level, PI is fundamentally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Namkyeong Cho , Yeoneung Kim

We prove that the multi-time Hamilton-Jacobi equation in general cannot be solved in the viscosity sense, in the non-convex setting, even when the Hamiltonians are in involution.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Andrea Davini , Maxime Zavidovique

In this paper we establish H\"older continuity estimates for viscosity solutions to first order Hamilton-Jacobi equations linked to linear control systems satisfying the Kalman rank condition. Our model Hamiltonians are non-convex in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Megan Griffin-Pickering , Alpár R. Mészáros

Employing a suitable nonlinear Lagrange functional, we derive generalized Hamilton-Jacobi equations for dynamical systems subject to linear velocity constraints. As long as a solution of the generalized Hamilton-Jacobi equation exists, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michele Pavon

We describe a quantum algorithm for preparing states that encode solutions of non-homogeneous linear partial differential equations. The algorithm is a continuous-variable version of matrix inversion: it efficiently inverts differential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Timjan Kalajdzievski , Christian Weedbrook , Seth Lloyd

In this paper, we develop algorithms to overcome the curse of dimensionality in possibly non-convex state-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations (HJ PDEs) arising from optimal control and differential game problems. The subproblems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Yat Tin Chow , Jerome Darbon , Stanley Osher , Wotao Yin

In this paper, we derive the lower bounds for the gradients of viscosity solutions to the Hamilton--Jacobi equation, where the convex Hamiltonian depends on the unknown function. We obtain gradient estimates using two different methods.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Kazuya Hirose