A stochastic representation for mean curvature type geometric flows

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Soner, HM; Touzi, N
• 署名单位: Koc University; Institut Polytechnique de Paris; ENSAE Paris
• 刊物名称: ANNALS OF PROBABILITY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0091-1798
• 发表日期: 2003
• 页码: 1145-1165
• 关键词: viscosity solutions; set; motion

摘要

A smooth solution {Gamma(t)}(tis an element of[0,T]) subset of R-d of a parabolic geometric flow is characterized as the reachability set of a stochastic target problem. In this control problem the controller tries to steer the state process into a given deterministic set T with probability one. The reachability set, V(t), for the target problem is the set of all initial data x from which the state process X-X(v)(t) is an element of T for some control process v. This representation is proved by studying the squared distance function to Gamma(t). For the codimension k mean curvature flow, the state process is dX(t) = root2P dW(t), where W(t) is a d-dimensional Brownian motion, and the control P is any projection matrix onto a (d - k)-dimensional plane. Smooth solutions of the inverse mean curvature flow and a discussion of non smooth solutions are also given.