Metamorphoses of the Chaperon-Sikorav weak solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations (Q1356275): Difference between revisions

The Cauchy problem for the Hamilton-Jacobi equation with smooth initial data has solutions that may become, in time, multivalued with unavoidable singularities. The Chaperon-Sikorav construction gives a weak solution to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. It is based on the idea of generating families of quadratic-at-infinity Legendrian submanifolds and on the minimax rule. This construction makes it possible to select a unique value at each point in space-time from a multivalued solution. In this paper, the author studies typical metamorphoses with time of the momentary minimax solutions where the dimension of the underlying configuration space is three or less. For a convex Hamiltonian the author shows that the Chaperon-Sikorav construction coincides with the well-known minimum solution determined by the Maxwell rule. In addition, the continuous weak solution is unique when the Hamiltonian is convex. However, if the Hamiltonian is not convex, uniqueness can fail.