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On the convergence rate of approximation schemes forHamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2002

Guy Barles  and
Espen Robstad Jakobsen
Guy Barles
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Physique Théorique, University of Tours, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France. barles@univ-tours.fr.
Espen Robstad Jakobsen
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway.
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Abstract

Using systematically a tricky idea of N.V. Krylov, we obtain general results on the rate of convergence of a certain class of monotone approximation schemes for stationary Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations with variable coefficients. This result applies in particular to control schemes based on the dynamic programming principle and to finite difference schemes despite, here, we are not able to treat the most general case. General results have been obtained earlier by Krylov for finite difference schemes in the stationary case with constant coefficients and in the time-dependent case with variable coefficients by using control theory and probabilistic methods. In this paper we are able to handle variable coefficients by a purely analytical method. In our opinion this way is far simpler and, for the cases we can treat, it yields a better rate of convergence than Krylov obtains in the variable coefficients case.

Keywords

Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equationviscosity solutionapproximation schemesfinite difference methodsconvergence rate.
Type
Research Article
Information
ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 33 - 54
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2002

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