On the vanishing discount approximation for compactly supported perturbations of periodic Hamiltonians: the 1d case

Abstract: We study the asymptotic behavior of the viscosity solutions $u^\lambda_G$ of the Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equation \begin{equation*} \lambda u(x)+G(x,u')=c(G)\qquad\hbox{in $\mathbb{R}$} \end{equation*} as the positive discount factor $\lambda$ tends to 0, where $G(x,p):=H(x,p)-V(x)$ is the perturbation of a Hamiltonian $H\in C({\mathbb R}\times{\mathbb R})$, ${\mathbb Z}$-periodic in the space variable and convex and coercive in the momentum, by a compactly supported potential $V\in {C}_c({\mathbb R})$. The constant $c(G)$ appearing above is defined as the infimum of values $a\in {\mathbb R}$ for which the HJ equation $G(x,u')=a$ in ${\mathbb R}$ admits bounded viscosity subsolutions. We prove that the functions $u^\lambda_G$ locally uniformly converge, for $\lambda\rightarrow 0^+$, to a specific solution $u_G^0$ of the critical equation \begin{equation}\label{abs}\tag{*} G(x,u')=c(G)\qquad\hbox{in ${\mathbb R}$}. \end{equation} We identify $u^0_G$ in terms of projected Mather measures for $G$ and of the limit $u^0_H$ to the unperturbed periodic problem. This can be regarded as an extension to a noncompact setting of the main results in [17]. Our work also includes a qualitative analysis of \eqref{abs} with a weak KAM theoretic flavor.