Local strict singular characteristics II: existence for stationary equation on ${\mathbb{R}}^2$

Abstract

The notion of strict singular characteristics is important in the wellposedness issue of singular dynamics on the cut locus of the viscosity solutions. We provide an intuitive and rigorous proof of the existence of the strict singular characteristics of Hamilton-Jacobi equation $H(x,Du(x),u(x))=0$ in two dimensional case. We also proved if $\mathbf{x}$ is a strict singular characteristic, then we really have the right-differentiability of $\mathbf{x}$ and the right-continuity of ${\dot{\mathbf{x}}}^{+}(t)$ for every $t$. Such a strict singular characteristic must give a selection $p(t)\in D^{+}u(\mathbf{x}(t))$ such that $p(t)=\arg {\min }_{p\in D^{+}u(\mathbf{x}(t))}H(\mathbf{x}(t),p,u(\mathbf{x}(t)))$.