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arxiv: 1809.05317 · v1 · pith:Y72EB4QJnew · submitted 2018-09-14 · 🧮 math.AP

Uniqueness of the viscosity solution of a constrained Hamilton-Jacobi equation

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In quantitative genetics, viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations appear naturally in the asymptotic limit of selection-mutation models when the population variance vanishes. They have to be solved together with an unknown function I(t) that arises as the counterpart of a non-negativity constraint on the solution at each time. Although the uniqueness of viscosity solutions is known for many variants of Hamilton-Jacobi equations, the uniqueness for this particular type of constrained problem was not resolved, except in a few particular cases. Here, we provide a general answer to the uniqueness problem, based on three main assumptions: convexity of the Hamiltonian function H(I, x, p) with respect to p, monotonicity of H with respect to I, and BV regularity of I(t).

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