Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations on graphs

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Main Authors: Forcillo, Nicolò, Kitagawa, Jun, Schwab, Russell W.
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Published: 2025
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author Forcillo, Nicolò
Kitagawa, Jun
Schwab, Russell W.
author_facet Forcillo, Nicolò
Kitagawa, Jun
Schwab, Russell W.
contents Here, we study Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations on graphs. These are meant to be the analog of any of the following types of equations in the continuum setting of partial differential and nonlocal integro-differential equations: Hamilton-Jacobi (typically first order and local), Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellmann-Isaacs (first, second, or fractional order), and elliptic integro-differential equations (nonlocal equations). We give conditions for the existence and uniqueness of solutions of these equations, and work through a long list of examples in which these assumptions are satisfied. This work is meant to accomplish three goals: complement and unite earlier assumptions and arguments focused more on the Hamilton-Jacobi type structure; import ideas from nonlocal elliptic integro-differential equations; and argue that nearly all of the operators in this family enjoy a common structure of being a monotone function of the differences of the unknown, plus ``lower order'' terms. This last goal is tied to the fact that most of the examples in this family can be proven to have a Bellman-Isaacs representation as a min-max of linear operators with a graph Laplacian structure.
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spellingShingle Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations on graphs
Forcillo, Nicolò
Kitagawa, Jun
Schwab, Russell W.
Analysis of PDEs
35B51, 35R09, 45K05, 47G20, 49L25, 60J75
Here, we study Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations on graphs. These are meant to be the analog of any of the following types of equations in the continuum setting of partial differential and nonlocal integro-differential equations: Hamilton-Jacobi (typically first order and local), Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellmann-Isaacs (first, second, or fractional order), and elliptic integro-differential equations (nonlocal equations). We give conditions for the existence and uniqueness of solutions of these equations, and work through a long list of examples in which these assumptions are satisfied. This work is meant to accomplish three goals: complement and unite earlier assumptions and arguments focused more on the Hamilton-Jacobi type structure; import ideas from nonlocal elliptic integro-differential equations; and argue that nearly all of the operators in this family enjoy a common structure of being a monotone function of the differences of the unknown, plus ``lower order'' terms. This last goal is tied to the fact that most of the examples in this family can be proven to have a Bellman-Isaacs representation as a min-max of linear operators with a graph Laplacian structure.
title Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations on graphs
topic Analysis of PDEs
35B51, 35R09, 45K05, 47G20, 49L25, 60J75
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07653