# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

May  2021, 41(5): 2377-2389. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020368

## On the vanishing discount problem from the negative direction

 1 Dip. di Matematica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy 2 Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Received  January 2020 Revised  July 2020 Published  November 2020

It has been proved in [7] that the unique viscosity solution of
 $$$\lambda u_\lambda+H(x,d_x u_\lambda) = c(H)\qquad\hbox{in M}, \;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;(*)$$$
uniformly converges, for
 $\lambda\rightarrow 0^+$
, to a specific solution
 $u_0$
of the critical equation
 $H(x,d_x u) = c(H)\qquad\hbox{in$M$},$
where
 $M$
is a closed and connected Riemannian manifold and
 $c(H)$
is the critical value. In this note, we consider the same problem for
 $\lambda\rightarrow 0^-$
. In this case, viscosity solutions of equation (*) are not unique, in general, so we focus on the asymptotics of the minimal solution
 $u_\lambda^-$
of (*). Under the assumption that constant functions are subsolutions of the critical equation, we prove that the
 $u_\lambda^-$
also converges to
 $u_0$
as
 $\lambda\rightarrow 0^-$
. Furthermore, we exhibit an example of
 $H$
for which equation (*) admits a unique solution for
 $\lambda<0$
as well.
Citation: Andrea Davini, Lin Wang. On the vanishing discount problem from the negative direction. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2021, 41 (5) : 2377-2389. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020368
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##### References:
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