Vanishing discount problem and the additive eigenvalues on changing domains

TL;DR

This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of solutions and eigenvalues of state-constraint Hamilton--Jacobi equations on changing domains as a parameter approaches zero, revealing convergence, non-convergence, and asymptotic expansion results.

Contribution

It provides the first asymptotic expansion results for the additive eigenvalue in the vanishing discount problem on variable domains.

Findings

Convergence and non-convergence results in convex settings.

Asymptotic expansion of the eigenvalue c(λ) as λ→0+.

Use of duality and viscosity Mather measures as main tools.

Abstract

We study the asymptotic behavior, as $\lambda\rightarrow 0^+$, of the state-constraint Hamilton--Jacobi equation $\phi(\lambda) u_\lambda(x) + H(x,Du_\lambda(x)) = 0$ in $(1+r(\lambda))\Omega$ and the corresponding additive eigenvalues, or ergodic constant $H(x,Dv(x)) = c(\lambda)$ in $(1+r(\lambda))\Omega$ with state-constraint. Here, $\Omega$ is a bounded domain of $ \mathbb{R}^n$, $\phi(\lambda), r(\lambda):(0,\infty)\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ are continuous functions such that $\phi$ is nonnegative and $\lim_{\lambda\rightarrow 0^+} \phi(\lambda) = \lim_{\lambda\rightarrow 0^+} r(\lambda) = 0$. We obtain both convergence and non-convergence results in the convex setting. Moreover, we provide a very first result on the asymptotic expansion of the additive eigenvalue $c(\lambda)$ as $\lambda\rightarrow 0^+$. The main tool we use is a duality representation of solution with viscosity Mather measures.