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We give a new perspective on the existence of viscosity solutions for a stationary and a time-dependent first-order Hamilton-Jacobi equation. Following recent comparison principles, we work in a framework in which we consider a subsolution…

We consider a family of models having an arbitrary positive amount of mass on each site and randomly exchanging an arbitrary amount of mass with nearest neighbor sites. We restrict to the case of diffusive models. We identify a class of…

In the paper, we consider a path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equation with coinvariant derivatives over the space of continuous functions. Such equations arise from optimal control problems and differential games for time-delay systems. We…

The control of relaxation-type systems of ordinary differential equations is investigated using the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation. First, we recast the model as a singularly perturbed dynamics which we embed in a family of controlled…

This article is devoted to the optimal control of state equations with memory of the form: ?[x(t) = F(x(t),u(t), \int_0^{+\infty} A(s) x(t-s) ds), t>0, with initial conditions x(0)=x, x(-s)=z(s), s>0.]Denoting by $y_{x,z,u}$ the solution of…

Here we study the nonnegative solutions of the viscous Hamilton-Jacobi problem \[ \left\{\begin{array} [c]{c}% u_{t}-\nu\Delta u+|\nabla u|^{q}=0, u(0)=u_{0}, \end{array} \right. \] in $Q_{\Omega,T}=\Omega\times\left(0,T\right) ,$ where…

We provide a general result concerning the homogenization of nonconvex viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the stationary, ergodic setting. In particular, we show that homogenization occurs for a non-empty set of points within every level…

Gradient normalization and soft clipping are two popular techniques for tackling instability issues and improving convergence of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with momentum. In this article, we study these types of methods through the…

In this paper, we study an optimal stopping problem in the presence of model uncertainty and regime switching. The max-min formulation for robust control and the dynamic programming approach are adopted to establish a general theoretical…

We propose a globally convergent numerical method, called the convexification, to numerically compute the viscosity solution to first-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations through the vanishing viscosity process where the viscosity parameter is a…

If $U:[0,+\infty[\times M$ is a uniformly continuous viscosity solution of the evolution Hamilton-Jacobi equation $$\partial_tU+ H(x,\partial_xU)=0,$$ where $M$ is a not necessarily compact manifold, and $H$ is a Tonelli Hamiltonian, we…

This paper is concerned with the qualitative properties of viscocity solutions to a class of Hamilton-Jacobi equations (HJEs) in Banach spaces. Specifically, based on the concept of $\beta$-derivative \cite{DGZ93b} we establish the…

This paper studies Hamilton-Jacobi equations of evolution type defined in a general metric space. We give a notion of a solution through optimal principles and establish a unique existence theorem of the solution for initial value problems.…

We consider in this note the Hamilton-Jacobi equation H(x, dx u) = c, where c \geq 0, of the classical N-body problem in an Euclidean space E of dimension k \geq 2. The fixed points of the Lax-Oleinik semigroup are global viscosity…

This paper is devoted to a viscosity solution theory of the stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation in the Wasserstein spaces for the mean-field type control problem which allows for random coefficients and may thus be non-Markovian.…

We consider the Cauchy problem for a strictly hyperbolic, $n\times n$ system in one space dimension: $u_t+A(u)u_x=0$, assuming that the initial data has small total variation. We show that the solutions of the viscous approximations…

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

This study investigated the stability of Hamilton--Jacobi equation on general metric spaces with a perturbation in some whole space. This type of stability appears in the domain perturbation problem. We find that the stability holds when…

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,…

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…