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We consider optimal control problems, where the control appears in the main part of the operator. We derive the Pontryagin maximum principle as a necessary optimality condition. The proof uses the concept of topological derivatives. In…
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This paper aims to establish second order necessary conditions for optimal control in quantum stochastic systems. We employ a variational approach, analogous to methods in classical stochastic control, to analyze systems governed by quantum…
In this paper we consider an optimal control problem governed by a semilinear heat equation with bilinear control-state terms and subject to control and state constraints. The state constraints are of integral type, the integral being with…
We study a system of nonlinear partial differential equations resulting from the traditional modelling of oil engineering within the framework of the mechanics of a continuous medium. Recent results on the problem provide existence,…
In this paper, we derive explicit second-order necessary and sufficient optimality conditions of a local minimizer to an optimal control problem for a quasilinear second-order partial differential equation with a piecewise smooth but not…
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In this paper, we investigate the multi-objective optimal control problem of ordinary differential equations on Riemannian manifolds. We first obtain the second-order necessary conditions for weak Pareto optimal solutions for…
We consider an optimal control problem for a system of local continuity equations on a space of probability measures. Such systems can be viewed as macroscopic models of ensembles of non-interacting particles or homotypic individuals,…
From economics point of view, we investigate a new optimal control problem driven by a stochastic differential equation with a multi-time states cost functional. By constructing a series of first-order adjoint equations, we establish the…
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In this article we derive a strong version of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle for general nonlinear optimal control problems on time scales in finite dimension. The final time can be fixed or not, and in the case of general boundary…
In this paper, a class of semilinear fractional elliptic equations associated to the spectral fractional Dirichlet Laplace operator is considered. We establish the existence of optimal solutions as well as a minimum principle of Pontryagin…
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In this paper we study the optimal control of an initial-boundary value problem for the classical nonviscous Cahn-Hilliard system with zero Neumann boundary conditions. Phase field systems of this type govern the evolution of diffusive…
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…
In this work, we consider the two dimensional tidal dynamics equations in a bounded domain and address some optimal control problems like total energy minimization, minimization of dissipation of energy of the flow, etc. We also examine an…
We investigate optimal control problems with $L^0$ constraints, which restrict the measure of the support of the controls. We prove necessary optimality conditions of Pontryagin maximum principle type. Here, a special control perturbation…
Second-order optimality conditions for vector nonlinear programming problems with inequality constraints are studied in this paper. We introduce a new second-order constraint qualification, which includes Mangasarian-Fromovitz constraint…
We present a unified study of first and second order necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for minimax and Chebyshev optimisation problems with cone constraints. First order optimality conditions for such problems can be formulated…