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An outline of the basic Riemannian structures underlying the separation of variables in the Hamilton-Jacobi equation of natural Hamiltonian systems.
Pseudo-holomorphic curves on almost complex manifolds have been much more intensely studied than their "dual" objects, the plurisubharmonic functions. These functions are defined classically by requiring that the restriction to each…
This work provides a comparison principle for viscosity solutions to boundary value problems on (partially) bounded, cylindrical spaces. The comparison principle is based on a test function framework, that allows for the simultaneous…
This paper explores the application of nonsmooth analysis in the Wasserstein space to finite-horizon optimal control problems for nonlocal continuity equations. We characterize the value function as a strict viscosity solution of the…
We prove comparison, uniqueness and existence results for viscosity solutions to a wide class of fully nonlinear second order partial differential equations $F(x, u, du, d^{2}u)=0$ defined on a finite-dimensional Riemannian manifold $M$.…
In this paper we show a uniqueness result for weak epigraphical solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations on infinite horizon for a class of lower semicontinuous functions vanishing at infinity. Weak epigraphical solutions of HJB…
In view of training increasingly complex learning architectures, we establish a nonsmooth implicit function theorem with an operational calculus. Our result applies to most practical problems (i.e., definable problems) provided that a…
Motivated by the vanishing contact problem, we study in the present paper the convergence of solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations depending nonlinearly on the unknown function. Let $H(x,p,u)$ be a continuous Hamiltonian which is strictly…
It is well-known that solutions to the basic problem in the calculus of variations may fail to be Lipschitz continuous when the Lagrangian depends on t. Similarly, for viscosity solutions to time-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations one…
For $N$-body problems with homogeneous potentials we define a special class of central configurations related with the reduction of homotheties in the study of homogeneous weak KAM solutions. For potentials in $1/r^\alpha$ with $\alpha\in…
This work is devoted to the studies of a Hamilton--Jacobi equation with a quadratic and degenerate Hamiltonian, which comes from the dynamics of a multipeakon in the Camassa--Holm equation. It is given by a quadratic form with a singular…
This paper studies the stochastic optimal control of jump-diffusion processes and the associated fully nonlinear backward stochastic Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (BSHJB) equations. We establish the dynamic programming principle (DPP) via…
We study the singular locus of solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations with a Hamiltonian independent of $u$. In a previous paper, we proved that the singular locus is what we call a balanced split locus. In this paper, we find and classify…
The rarely used Hamilton-Jacobi equation has been utilized as an elegant way to find the trajectories of mechanical systems and to derive symplectic maps. Further, the exact solution in kick approximation of Hamilton's equations of motion…
We consider a weakly coupled system of discounted Hamilton--Jacobi equations set on a closed Riemannian manifold. We prove that the corresponding solutions converge to a specific solution of the limit system as the discount factor goes to…
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…
Viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear, local or non local, Hamilton-Jacobi equations with a super-quadratic growth in the gradient variable are proved to be H\"older continuous, with a modulus depending only on the growth of the…
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…
This work concerns the optimal control problem for McKean-Vlasov SDEs. In order to characterize the value function, we develop the viscosity solution theory for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations on the Wasserstein space using…
We study minimax (generalized) solutions of a Cauchy problem for a (first-order) path-dependent Hamilton--Jacobi equation with co-invariant derivatives under a right-end boundary condition. Under assumptions on the Hamiltonian that are more…