Theory and applications of viscosity solutions

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The results obtained are summarized as follows. 1. We introduced a method of constructing an approximate feedback control for state-constraint control problems via viscosity solutions of the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi equations. 2. The uniqueness and existence theorem due to Barron-Jensen on semicontinuous viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations is a fundamental tool in characterizing value functions in optimal control when the value functions are semicontinuous. We established a theorem similar to the Barron-Jensen theorem in Hilbert spaces. 3. We considered the Hamilton-Jacobi equation in ergodic control and gave a characterization of the existence of viscosity solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation through a kind of value function of the corresponding ergodic optimal control. 4. In the Barron-Jensen theory of semicontinuous viscosity solutions the convexity of Hamiltonians is a key assumption. We introduced a notion of semicontinuous viscosity solution for Hamilton-Jacobi equations with non-convex Hamiltonian for which nice uniqueness and existence properties hold. 5. We studied the solvability, uniqueness, smoothness of solutions of Bellman equations in risk-sensitive stochastic control as well as the relation between its singular limit and a differential game. 6. We introduced a geometric approximation scheme for Gauss curvature flow of a convex body and proved its convergence. 7. We proved the equivalence between the invariance of a controlled stochastic differential equation with respect to a compact set and the restriction property to the compact set of viscosity solutions of the corresponding Bellman equation. 8. We studied the waiting time phenomena for Gauss curvature flow of a convex set and proved that if two principal curvatures vanish at a point on the initial surface then the waiting time of the point is positive.