Monge solutions of time-dependent Hamilton–Jacobi equations in metric spaces

¹ Geometric Partial Differential Equations Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan
² Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

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Received: 25 February 2025
Accepted: 1 November 2025

Abstract

As a classical notion equivalent to viscosity solutions, Monge solutions are well understood for stationary Hamilton–Jacobi equations in Euclidean spaces and have been recently studied in general metric spaces. In this paper, we introduce a notion of Monge solutions for time-dependent Hamilton–Jacobi equations in metric spaces. The key idea is to reformulate the equation as a stationary problem under the assumption of Lipschitz regularity for the initial data. We establish the uniqueness and existence of bounded Lipschitz Monge solutions to the initial value problem and discuss their equivalence with existing notions of metric viscosity solutions.