Initial data identification in space dependent conservation laws and Hamilton-Jacobi equations.

Consider a Conservation Law and a Hamilton-Jacobi equation with a flux/Hamiltonian depending also on the space variable. We characterize first the attainable set of the two equations and, second, the set of initial data evolving at a prescribed time into a prescribed profile. An explicit example then shows the deep differences between the cases of x-independent and x-dependent fluxes/Hamiltonians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]