Diogo A. Gomes, Enrico Valdinoci Entropy penalization methods for Hamilton-Jacobi equations (528K, Postscript) ABSTRACT. In this paper, we present a new entropy penalization problem and we discuss its relations with approximate solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations, the convergence of associated discrete schemes, as well as several applications, such as: a generalization of the Hopf-Cole transformation which converts non-linear Hamilton-Jacobi equations into linear evolution equations, the study of fixed point problems, approximation of certain linear evolution equations, and the construction of entropy penalized Mather measures.