Adjoint methods for static Hamilton-Jacobi equations (Q543381)

The author introduces new ideas to apply the adjoint method to the study of some time-independent PDEs such as the stationary Hamilton-Jacobi equation, an eikonal-like equation, and the homogenization of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. He classifies the problems into two classes: the class containing a zero-order term \(u^\varepsilon\) in the regularized equation, and the class without that term \(u^\varepsilon\), and proposes two different methods to deal with each class. This work contains three sections about three types of static Hamilton-Jacobi equations, which are interesting and familiar to the readers. In Section 2, the stationary problem in the whole space \(\mathbb R^n\) \[ u(x)+H(x,Du(x))=0 \text{ in } \mathbb R^n \] is studied by looking at the regularized problem \[ u^\varepsilon(x)+H(x,Du^\varepsilon(x))=\varepsilon\Delta u^\varepsilon \text{ in } \mathbb R^n. \] This problem is of the first type because the regularized equation contains a zero-order term \(u^\varepsilon\). In Section 3, the author studies the eikonal-like equation in a bounded domain \(U\) with smooth boundary \[ H(Du(x))=0 \text{ in } U,~u(x)=0 \text{ on } \partial U \] and he also looks at the following regularized problem \[ H(Du^\varepsilon (x))=\varepsilon \Delta u^\varepsilon (x) \text{ in } U,~u^\varepsilon (x)=0 \text{ on } \partial U. \] This problem is of the second type described above. Finally, in the last section, the effective Hamiltonian and the homogenization of the Hamilton-Jacobi equations \[ H(P+Dv,y)=\overline{H}(P) \] are studied.