Nonsmooth analysis and Hamilton--Jacobi equations on Riemannian manifolds (Q1776889)

The aim of this unusually large paper (58 pages) is to extend to the case of Riemannian manifolds certain existing concepts and results concerning variational (``perturbed minimization'') principles, the definitions and basic properties of the ``viscosity'' semidifferentials and the applications of these concepts and results to the theory of viscosity solutions for Hamilton-Jacobi equations. Using the basic formalism in the theory of Riemannian manifolds, the authors are able to prove that most of the results on these topics, proved so far in the case of vector spaces (either finite or infinite-dimensional), remain valid in almost the same forms in the case of Riemannian manifolds with certain additional properties. The length of the paper is justified by the detailed proofs, notations and definitions and the multitude of remarks on the relations with previous results on vector spaces.