Patrick Bernard

Address: Place du Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France

E-mail: bernard@ens.fr

University: Universite Paris-Dauphine – CEREMADE (UMR 7534)

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Bernard P.

Semi-concave Singularities and the Hamilton–Jacobi Equation
2013, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 674-685

Abstract

We study the Cauchy problem for the Hamilton–Jacobi equation with a semiconcave initial condition.We prove an inequality between two types of weak solutions emanating from such an initial condition (the variational and the viscosity solution).We also give conditions for an explicit semi-concave function to be a viscosity solution. These conditions generalize the entropy inequality characterizing piecewise smooth solutions of scalar conservation laws in dimension one.

Keywords: Hamilton–Jacobi equations, viscosity solutions, variational solutions, calculus of variations

Citation: Bernard P., Semi-concave Singularities and the Hamilton–Jacobi Equation, Regular and Chaotic Dynamics, 2013, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 674-685

DOI:10.1134/S1560354713060075

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