Adjoint methods for obstacle problems and weakly coupled systems of PDE

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Abstract: The adjoint method, recently introduced by Evans, is used to study obstacle problems, weakly coupled systems, cell problems for weakly coupled systems of Hamilton-Jacobi equations, and weakly coupled systems of obstacle type. In particular, new results about the speed of convergence of common approximation procedures are derived.


The authors give different applications of the adjoint method, which was introduced in [\textit{L. C. Evans}, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 197, No. 3, 1053--1088 (2010; Zbl 1273.70030)]. In the following, \(U\subset {\mathbb{R}}^n\) is an open bounded domain with smooth boundary and \(n\geq 2\). They first study the obstacle problem NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\begin{cases}\max\{u-\psi,u+H(x,Du)\}=0,\text{ in }U, \\ u=0,\text{ on }\partial U,\end{cases}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(\psi: \overline{U}\longrightarrow {\mathbb{R}}\) and \(H: {\mathbb{R}}^n\times \overline{U}\longrightarrow {\mathbb{R}}\) are smooth functions with \(\psi\geq 0\) on \(\partial U\). The authors then study the weakly coupled system of Hamilton-Jacobi equations NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\begin{cases} c_{11}u_1+c_{12}u_2+H_1(x,Du_1)=0,\text{ in }U,\\ c_{21}u_1+c_{22}u_2+H_2(x,Du_2)=0,\text{ in }U, \\u_1=u_2=0,\text{ on }\partial U.\end{cases}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE The third application concerns the cell problem NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\begin{cases} c_1u_1-c_1u_2+H_1(x,Du_1)=\overline{H}_1,\text{ in }{\mathbb{T}}^n,\\ -c_2u_1+c_2u_2+H_2(x,Du_2)=\overline{H}_2,\text{ in }{\mathbb{T}}^n,\end{cases}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(u_1\) ,\(u_2: {\mathbb{T}}^n\longrightarrow {\mathbb{R}}\) and \(\overline{H}_1,\overline{H}_2\in {\mathbb{R}}\) are the unknowns. Finally, they study the weakly coupled systems of obstacle type NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\begin{cases}\max\{u_1-u_2-\psi_1,u_1+H_1(x,Du_1)\}=0,\text{ in }U,\\ \max\{u_2-u_1-\psi_2,u_2+H_2(x,Du_2)\}=0,\text{ in }U, \\ u_1=u_2=0,\text{ on }\partial U,\end{cases}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(\psi_1,\psi_2: \overline{U}\longrightarrow {\mathbb{R}}\) and \(H_1,H_2: {\mathbb{R}}^n\times \overline{U}\longrightarrow {\mathbb{R}}\) are smooth functions with \(\psi_1,\psi_2\geq \alpha>0\). In each case, the authors obtain the convergence, with a precise rate, of the corresponding regularised procedure.




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