Homogenization of Hamilton-Jacobi equations with defects leading to stratified problems

TL;DR

This paper investigates the homogenization of 2D stationary Hamilton-Jacobi equations with defects near a half-line, showing the limit leads to stratified problems with effective Hamiltonians tied to Whitney stratification.

Contribution

It introduces a novel analysis of homogenization in Hamilton-Jacobi equations with defects, linking the limit to stratified problems and Whitney stratification structures.

Findings

Limit problems are stratified, involving submanifolds of dimensions zero, one, and two.

Effective Hamiltonians are associated with each submanifold, capturing perturbations.

The approach extends to Hamiltonians perturbed near lines, demonstrating versatility.

Abstract

We study homogenization of a class of bidimensional stationary Hamilton-Jacobi equations where the Hamiltonian is obtained by perturbing near a half-line of the state space a Hamiltonian that either does not have fast variations with respect to the state variable, or depends on the latter in a periodic manner. We prove that the limiting problem belongs to the class of stratified problems introduced by A. Bressan and Y. Hong and later studied by G. Barles and E. Chasseigne. The related Whitney stratification is made of a submanifold of dimension zero, namely the endpoint of the half-line, a submanifold of dimension one, the open half-line, and the complement of the latter two sets which is a submanifold of dimension two. The limiting problem involves effective Hamiltonians that are associated to the above mentioned three submanifolds and keep track of the perturbation. Another example in which the Hamiltonian is perturbed in a tubular neighborhood of a line is studied.