Convexity preserving properties for Hamilton-Jacobi equations in geodesic spaces

Qing Liu; Atsushi Nakayasu

doi:10.3934/dcds.2019007

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2019, Volume 39, Issue 1: 157-183. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019007

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Convexity preserving properties for Hamilton-Jacobi equations in geodesic spaces

Qing Liu^1, and
Atsushi Nakayasu^2,

1.
Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan
2.
Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0041, Japan

Received: September 30, 2017

Revised: June 30, 2018

Published: December 2018

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We study the convexity preserving property for a class of time-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations in a complete geodesic space. Assuming that the Hamiltonian is nondecreasing, we show that in a Busemann space the unique metric viscosity solution preserves the geodesic convexity of the initial value at any time. We provide two approaches and also discuss several generalizations for more general geodesic spaces including the lattice grid.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: 35E10, 30L99, 49L25.

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