Regularity properties of the distance functions to conjugate and cut loci for viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations and applications in Riemannian geometry

DOI10.1051/cocv/2009020zbMath1201.35087arXiv0812.4107WikidataQ115334478 ScholiaQ115334478MaRDI QIDQ3580018

Marco Castelpietra, Ludovic Rifford

Publication date: 11 August 2010

Published in: ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4107

zbMATH Keywords

regularity; Riemannian geometry; Hamilton-Jacobi equation; viscosity solution; cut locus; conjugate locus; Dirichlet-type Hamilton-Jacobi equation; locally semiconcave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35F20: Nonlinear first-order PDEs

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

49L25: Viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations in optimal control and differential games

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