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VISCOSITY SOLUTIONS OF HAMILTON-JACOBI EQUATIONS, AND ASYMPTOTICS FOR HAMILTONIAN SYSTEMS DIOGO AGUIAR GOMES Supported in part by FCT (Portugal) through programs POCTI, POCTI/32931/MAT/2000, BPD 1531/2000 and NSF grant DMS 97- 29992. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and I.S.T. - Lisbon, Portugal email:dgomes@math.ist.utl.pt Abstract. In this paper we apply the theory of viscosity solu- tions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations to understand the structure of certain Hamiltonian flows. In particular, we describe the as- ymptotic behavior of minimizing orbits, and prove analogs of the classical Hamilton-Jacobi integrability theory that hold under very general conditions. Then, combining partial differential equations techniques with dynamical systems ideas (Mather measures, er- godicity) we study solutions of time-independent Hamilton-Jacobi equation, namely, uniform continuity, difference quotients and non- uniqueness. 1. Introduction Consider the Hamiltonian differential equations (1) x˙ = −D H (p, x ) p˙ = D H (p, x ), p x where H (p, x ) : R2n → R is smooth function. The first objective of this paper is to understand the asymptotic behavior of the trajectories of (1) that are characteristics of viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations, (2) H (P + D u, x) = H (P ). x For such trajectories we will prove that analogs of Hamilton-Jacobi classical integrability theory still hold under general conditions - even when (1) is non-integrable. The second objective is to make clear the