General existence theorems for Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the scalar and vectorial cases (Q1384837)

Consider the following Dirichlet problem for the Hamilton-Jacobi equation: \[ F(Du(x))= 0,\qquad\text{a.e. }x\in\Omega, \] \[ u(x)= \varphi(x),\qquad x\in\partial\Omega, \] where \(\Omega\) is an open bounded set of \(\mathbb{R}^n\), \(F: \mathbb{R}^{n\times N}\to \mathbb{R}\) and \(\varphi\in W^{1,\infty}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^N)\), with \(n,N\geq 1\). In this paper, the authors introduce some new and interesting conditions on \(F\) and \(\varphi\) and a new method to prove existence of solutions. In the scalar case, \(N= 1\), they prove that if \(E= \{z\in\mathbb{R}^n: F(z)= 0\}\) is closed and \[ D\varphi\in E\cup\text{int co }E, \] where \(\text{int co }E\) denotes the interior of convex hull of \(E\), the problem has solutions in \(W^{1,\infty}\). In the vectorial case \(N>1\), the existence proof is achieved provided that \(F\) is quasiconvex and satisfies some additional assumptions. Finally, the prescribed singular values case is also studied. The proofs use the Baire category methods and weak lower semicontinuity arguments.