Uniqueness for unbounded solutions to stationary viscous Hamilton--Jacobi equations.pdfVIP

6 Uniqueness for unbounded solutions to stationary 0 0 viscous Hamilton–Jacobi equations 2 n Guy Barles, Alessio Porretta a J 6 2 Abstract We consider a class of stationary viscous Hamilton–Jacobi equations as λ u − div(A(x)∇u) = H (x, ∇u) in Ω, ] P u = 0 on ∂Ω A where λ ≥ 0, A(x) is a bounded and uniformly elliptic matrix and H (x, ξ) is convex . N q ′ h in ξ and grows at most like |ξ | + f (x), with 1 q 2 and f ∈ L q (Ω). Under such t growth conditions solutions are in general unbounded, and there is not uniqueness a of usual weak solutions. We prove that uniqueness holds in the restricted class of m q¯−1 1 [ solutions satisfying a suitable energy–type estimate, i.e. (1 + |u |) u ∈ H0 (Ω), for a certain (optimal) exponent q¯. This completes the recent results in [14], where the 1 existence of at least one solution in this class has been proved. v 5 MSC: 35J60 (35R05, 35Dxx). 3 6 1 Running head: Viscous Hamilton–Jacobi equations 0 6 0 / 1 Introduction h t a In this paper we consider a class of elliptic equations in a bounded domain m Ω ⊂ IRN , N 2 : v