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Second-Order Analysis and Numerical Approximation for Bang-Bang Bilinear Control Problems

Optimization and Control 2017-07-24 v1

Abstract

We consider bilinear optimal control problems, whose objective functionals do not depend on the controls. Hence, bang-bang solutions will appear. We investigate sufficient second-order conditions for bang-bang controls, which guarantee local quadratic growth of the objective functional in L1L^1. In addition, we prove that for controls that are not bang-bang, no such growth can be expected. Finally, we study the finite-element discretization, and prove error estimates of bang-bang controls in L1L^1-norms.

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@article{arxiv.1707.06880,
  title  = {Second-Order Analysis and Numerical Approximation for Bang-Bang Bilinear Control Problems},
  author = {Eduardo Casas and Daniel Wachsmuth and Gerd Wachsmuth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.06880},
  year   = {2017}
}
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