Generic uniqueness and conjugate points for optimal control problems
Optimization and Control
2025-01-22 v1
Abstract
The paper is concerned with an optimal control problem on , where the dynamics is linear w.r.t.~the control functions. For a terminal cost in a set of (i.e., in a countable intersection of open dense subsets), two main results are proved.Namely: the set of conjugate points is closed, with locally bounded -dimensional Hausdorff measure. Moreover, the set of initial points , which admit two or more globally optimal trajectories, is contained in the union of a locally finite family of embedded manifolds. In particular, the value function is continuously differentiable on an open, dense subset of .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2501.10572,
title = {Generic uniqueness and conjugate points for optimal control problems},
author = {Alberto Bressan and Marco Mazzola and Khai T. Nguyen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.10572},
year = {2025}
}
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18 pages, 1 figure