The method of characteristics revisited. A viability approach

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Abstract: This mini-course provides a presentation of the method of characteristics to initial/boundary-value problems for systems of first-order partial differential equations and to Hamilton-Jacobi variational inequalities. In particular, these results are indeed useful for the treatment of hybrid systems of control theory. We rely on tools forged by set-valued analysis and viability theory, which happen to be both efficient and versatile to cover many problems. They find here unexpected relevance.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Control problems for functional-differential equations (34K35) Viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations in optimal control and differential games (49L25) Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics (70H20)

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