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We introduce a family of identities that express general linear non-unitary evolution operators as a linear combination of unitary evolution operators, each solving a Hamiltonian simulation problem. This formulation can exponentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Dong An , Andrew M. Childs , Lin Lin

We give a proof of existence and uniqueness of viscosity solutions to parabolic quasilinear equations for a fairly general class of nonconvex Hamiltonians with superlinear growth in the gradient variable. The approach is mainly based on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Andrea Davini

This work is devoted to the analysis of the backward problem for a viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation with degenerate diffusion and a general Hamiltonian that is not necessarily quadratic. First, we focus on linear degenerate parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-11 S. E. Chorfi , A. Habbal , M. Jahid , L. Maniar , A. Ratnani

In this paper, we propose Q-learning algorithms for continuous-time deterministic optimal control problems with Lipschitz continuous controls. Our method is based on a new class of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations derived from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Jeongho Kim , Jaeuk Shin , Insoon Yang

We study a stochastic control problem on a bounded domain, which arises from a continuous-time optimal management model. Via the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation the value function is shown to be jointly continuous and to…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Ruoting Gong , Christian Houdré

We present quantum algorithms for solving two problems regarding stochastic processes. The first algorithm prepares the thermal Gibbs state of a quantum system and runs in time almost linear in $\sqrt{N \beta/{\cal Z}}$ and polynomial in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Anirban Narayan Chowdhury , Rolando D. Somma

This paper deals with the periodic homogenization of nonlocal parabolic Hamilton-Jacobi equations with superlinear growth in the gradient terms. We show that the problem presents different features depending on the order of the nonlocal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Martino Bardi , Annalisa Cesaroni , Erwin Topp

We establish a linear $L^p$ rate of convergence, $1<p<\infty$, with respect to the viscosity $\varepsilon$ for the vanishing viscosity process of semiconcave solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations by regularizing the PDE with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Alessandro Goffi

Maximum entropy inference and learning of graphical models are pivotal tasks in learning theory and optimization. This work extends algorithms for these problems, including generalized iterative scaling (GIS) and gradient descent (GD), to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Minbo Gao , Zhengfeng Ji , Fuchao Wei

We study the speed of convergence in $L^\infty$ norm of the vanishing viscosity process for Hamilton-Jacobi equations with uniformly or strictly convex Hamiltonian terms with superquadratic behavior. Our analysis boosts previous findings on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Marco Cirant , Alessandro Goffi

We establish that a viscosity solution to a multidimensional Hamilton-Jacobi equation with a convex non-degenerate hamiltonian and Bohr almost periodic initial data decays to its infimum as time $t\to+\infty$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Evgeny Yu. Panov

We consider an initial value problem for a Hamilton--Jacobi equation with a quadratic and degenerate Hamiltonian. Our Hamiltonian comes from the dynamics of $N$-peakon in the Camassa--Holm equation. It is given by a quadratic form with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Tomasz Cieślak , Jakub Siemianowski , Andrzej Święch

In this paper, we investigate a fully nonlinear evolutionary Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) parabolic equation utilizing the monotone operator technique. We consider the HJB equation arising from portfolio optimization selection, where the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-04-14 Daniel Sevcovic , Cyril Izuchukwu Udeani

We prove homogenization properties of random Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations on continuum percolation clusters, almost surely w.r.t. the law of the environment when the origin belongs to the unbounded component in the continuum.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Rodrigo Bazaes , Alexander Mielke , Chiranjib Mukherjee

We show that, for first-order systems of conservation laws with a strictly convex entropy,in particular for the very simple so-called "inviscid" Burgers equation,it is possible to address the Cauchy problem by a suitable convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-12 Yann Brenier

In this note we study the convergence of monotone P1 finite element methods on unstructured meshes for fully non-linear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations arising from stochastic optimal control problems with possibly degenerate, isotropic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-25 Max Jensen , Iain Smears

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.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Andrew Christlieb , Wei Guo , Yan Jiang

We consider fully nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations associated to diffusion control problems involving a finite set-valued (or switching) control and possibly a continuum-valued control. We construct a lower complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-11 Marianne Akian , Eric Fodjo

We consider the optimal control of solutions of first order Hamilton-Jacobi equations, where the Hamiltonian is convex with linear growth. This models the problem of steering the propagation of a front by constructing an obstacle. We prove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-11 Philip Jameson Graber

Weak KAM theory for discount Hamilton-Jacobi equations and corresponding discount Lagrangian/Hamiltonian dynamics is developed. Then it is applied to error estimates for viscosity solutions in the vanishing discount process. The main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Hiroyoshi Mitake , Kohei Soga