Commuting Hamiltonians and Hamilton-Jacobi multi-time equations (Q939644)

Commuting Hamiltonians play a decisive role for the existence of solutions of multi-time Hamilton-Jacobi equations of the type \(u_{t_k}+H_k=0\), with \(k=1,\dots,d\). Motivated by this fact, the authors prove that if two Hamiltonians \(H\) and \(K\) are \(C^{1,1}\) and they may be written as the \(C^0\)-limit of \(C^1\) commuting Hamiltonians \(H_n\) and \(K_n\), then \(H\) and \(K\) commute. This may be seen as a generalization of important symplectic geometry results, see [\textit{M. Gromov}, Invent. Math. 82, 307--347 (1985; Zbl 0592.53025)] and [\textit{I. Ekeland} and \textit{H. Hofer}, Math Z. 200, No. 3, 355--378 (1989; Zbl 0641.53035)] and it allows the authors to define commutations for \(C^0\) Hamiltonians. In this way, the authors can prove existence/uniqueness of variational solutions of multi-time Hamilton-Jacobi equations under more general assumptions than the classical ones in [\textit{G. Barles} and \textit{A. Tourin}, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 50, No. 4, 1523--1544 (2001; Zbl 1044.49022)].