A representation formula of the viscosity solution of the contact Hamilton-Jacobi equation and its applications

TL;DR

This paper derives a representation formula for viscosity solutions of contact Hamilton-Jacobi equations on manifolds, providing new conditions for existence and a novel comparison theorem related to the Aubry set.

Contribution

It introduces a solution semigroup and a representation formula for viscosity solutions, along with new existence criteria and a comparison theorem for contact Hamilton-Jacobi equations.

Findings

Representation formula for viscosity solutions established.

Necessary and sufficient conditions for stationary solutions derived.

A new comparison theorem depending on the Aubry set neighborhood proved.

Abstract

Assume $M$ is a closed, connected and smooth Riemannian manifold. We consider the evolutionary Hamilton-Jacobi equation \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{aligned} &\partial_t u(x,t)+H(x,u(x,t),\partial_xu(x,t))=0,\quad (x,t)\in M\times(0,+\infty), \\ &u(x,0)=\varphi(x), \end{aligned} \right. \end{equation*} where $\varphi\in C(M)$ and the stationary one \begin{equation*} H(x,u(x),\partial_x u(x))=0, \end{equation*} where $H(x,u,p)$ is continuous, convex and coercive in $p$, uniformly Lipschitz in $u$. By introducing a solution semigroup, we provide a representation formula of the viscosity solution of the evolutionary equation. As its applications, we obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of the viscosity solutions of the stationary equations. Moreover, we prove a new comparison theorem depending on the neighborhood of the projected Aubry set essentially, which is different from the one for the Hamilton-Jacobi equation independent of $u$.