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In this article we provide a Hamilton-Jacobi formalism in locally conformally symplectic manifolds. Our interest in the Hamilton-Jacobi theory comes from the suitability of this theory as an integration method for dynamical systems, whilst…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Oğul Esen , Manuel de León , Cristina Sardón , Marcin Zajac

A general formalism for obtaining the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian for a one dimensional dissipative system is developed. The formalism is illustrated by applying it to the case of a relativistic particle with linear dissipation. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Gonzalez

In this thesis the quantum Hamilton - Jacobi (QHJ) formalism is used for (i) potentials which exhibit different spectra for different ranges of the potential parameters, (ii) exactly solvable (ES) periodic potentials (iii) quasi - exactly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Sree Ranjani

In the present article, we study the numerical approximation of a system of Hamilton-Jacobi and transport equations arising in geometrical optics. We consider a semi-Lagrangian scheme. We prove the well posedness of the discrete problem and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-20 Yves Achdou , Fabio Camilli , Lucilla Corrias

Time and again, non-conventional forms of Lagrangians with non-quadratic velocity dependence have found attention in the literature. For one thing, such Lagrangians have deep connections with several aspects of nonlinear dynamics including…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Bijan Bagchi , Aritra Ghosh , Miloslav Znojil

The Hamilton-Jacobi analysis of three dimensional gravity defined in terms of Ashtekar-like variables is performed. We report a detailed analysis where the complete set of Hamilton-Jacobi constraints, the characteristic equations and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-28 Alberto Escalante , M. Eduardo Hernández-García

The method of characteristics is extended to set-valued Hamilton-Jacobi equations. This problems arises from a calculus of variations' problem with a multicriteria Lagrangian function: through an embedding into a set-valued framework, a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Daniela Visetti

We present qualitative and quantitative homogenization results for pathwise Hamilton-Jacobi equations with "rough" multiplicative driving signals. When there is only one such signal and the Hamiltonian is convex, we show that the equation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Benjamin Seeger

Quantum Hamilton-Jacobi quantization scheme uses the singularity structure of the potential of a quantum mechanical system to generate its eigenspectrum and eigenfunctions, and its efficacy has been demonstrated for several well known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Rathi Dasgupta , Asim Gangopadhyaya

We compute explicitly the equations of motion of the Hamiltonian formulation of quadratic gravity. This is the theory with the most general Lagrangian with terms of quadratic order in the curvature tensor. We employ the symbolic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Jorge Bellorin

In this paper we discuss singular Lagrangian systems on the framework of contact geometry. These systems exhibit a dissipative behavior in contrast with the symplectic scenario. We develop a constraint algorithm similar to the presymplectic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Manuel de León , Manuel Lainz Valcázar

We prove rate of convergence results for singular perturbations of Hamilton-Jacobi equations in unbounded spaces where the fast operator is linear, uniformly elliptic and has an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck-type drift. The slow operator is a fully…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Daria Ghilli , Claudio Marchi

In the light front quantisation scheme initial conditions are usually provided on a single lightlike hyperplane. This, however, is insufficient to yield a unique solution of the field equations. We investigate under which additional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 T. Heinzl , E. Werner

For a relativistic particle under a constant force and a linear velocity dissipation force, a constant of motion is found. Problems are shown for getting the Hamiltoninan of this system. Thus, the quantization of this system is carried out…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-19 Gustavo López , Xaman-Ek López , Hector Hernández

The Hamilton--Jacobi formalism generalized to 2--dimensional field theories according to Lepage's canonical framework is applied to several covariant real scalar fields, e.g. massless and massive Klein--Gordon, Sine--Gordon, Liouville and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Wulf Boettger , Henning Wissowski , Hans A. Kastrup

The Hamilton-Jacobi equation (HJE) is one of the most elegant approach to Lagrangian systems such as geometrical optics and classical mechanics, establishing the duality between trajectories and waves and paving the way naturally for the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Bahram Houchmandzadeh

We apply the long-wavelength approximation to the low energy effective string action in the context of Hamilton-Jacobi theory. The Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the effective string action is explicitly invariant under scale factor duality.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 K. Saygili

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

Hamilton-Jacobi reachability (HJR) is an exciting framework used for control of safety-critical systems with nonlinear and possibly uncertain dynamics. However, HJR suffers from the curse of dimensionality, with computation times growing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Dylan Hirsch , Sylvia Herbert

This paper introduces a novel methodology that leverages the Hamilton-Jacobi solution to enhance non-linear model predictive control (MPC) in scenarios affected by navigational uncertainty. Using Hamilton-Jacobi-Theoretic approach, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Amit Jain , Roshan T. Eapen , Puneet Singla