Herglotz' variational principle and Lax-Oleinik evolution (Q2193430)

The authors develop an elementary method to estimate in the Lipschitz sense the minimizers in the problem of Herglotz' variational principle, which was proposed by them in [Springer INdAM Ser. 32, 39--67 (2019; Zbl 1428.35087)] in the time-dependent case. They deduce the Erdmann's condition and the Euler-Lagrange equation separately via a generalized du Bois-Reymond lemma. As an application of their results, they derive a representation formula for the viscosity solution of the Cauchy problem for the Hamilton-Jacobi equation \(D_tu(t,x)+H(t,x,D_xu(t,x)\), \(u(t,x))=0\), and investigate the related Lax-Oleinik evolution.