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Many systems exhibit a mixture of continuous and discrete dynamics. We consider a family of mixed-integer non-convex non-linear optimisation problems obtained in discretisations of optimal control of such systems. For this family, a…

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We consider a bilinear optimal control for an evolution equation involving the fractional Laplace operator of order $0<s<1$. We first give some existence and uniqueness results for the considered evolution equation. Next, we establish some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Gisèle Mophou , Cyrille Kenne , Mahamadi Warma

Many discrete-time optimal stopping problems are known to have more tractable limit forms based on a planar Poisson process. Using this tool we find a solution to the optimal stopping problem for i.i.d. sequence of $n$ discrete uniform…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Alexander Gnedin

We consider a quasi-variational inequality governed by a moving set. We employ the assumption that the movement of the set has a small Lipschitz constant. Under this requirement, we show that the quasi-variational inequality has a unique…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-09 Gerd Wachsmuth

In this paper, we consider an optimal bilinear control problem for the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with singular potentials. We show well-posedness of the problem and existence of an optimal control. In addition, the first order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-21 Binhua Feng , Dun Zhao , Pengyu Chen

We consider standard tracking-type, distributed elliptic optimal control problems with $L^2$ regularization, and their finite element discretization. We are investigating the $L^2$ error between the finite element approximation $u_{\varrho…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Ulrich Langer , Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang

In this paper we consider the Virtual Element discretization of a minimal surface problem, a quasi-linear elliptic partial differential equation modeling the problem of minimizing the area of a surface subject to a prescribed boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-23 Paola Francesca Antonietti , Silvia Bertoluzza , Daniele Prada , Marco Verani

In this paper we are concerned with generalised L 1-minimisation problems, i.e. Bolza problems involving the absolute value of the control with a control-affine dynamics. We establish sufficient conditions for the strong local optimality of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-28 Francesca Chittaro , Laura Poggiolini

We generalize the Maximum Principle for free end point optimal control problems involving sweeping systems derived in [9] to cover the case where the end point is constrained to take values in a certain set. As in [9], an ingenious smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-22 M. d. R. de Pinho , M. Margarida A. Ferreira , Georgi Smirnov

In this work, we investigate a neural network based solver for optimal control problems (without / with box constraint) for linear and semilinear second-order elliptic problems. It utilizes a coupled system derived from the first-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Yongcheng Dai , Bangti Jin , Ramesh Sau , Zhi Zhou

We derive novel algorithms for optimization problems constrained by partial differential equations describing multiscale particle dynamics, including non-local integral terms representing interactions between particles. In particular, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Mildred Aduamoah , Benjamin D. Goddard , John W. Pearson , Jonna C. Roden

Discrete-time robust optimal control problems generally take a min-max structure over continuous variable spaces, which can be difficult to solve in practice. In this paper, we extend the class of such problems that can be solved through a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Jad Wehbeh , Eric C. Kerrigan

We present a method to solve a special class of parameter identification problems for an elliptic optimal control problem to global optimality. The bilevel problem is reformulated via the optimal-value function of the lower-level problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Markus Friedemann , Felix Harder , Gerd Wachsmuth

We consider finite element solutions to quadratic optimization problems, where the state depends on the control via a well-posed linear partial differential equation. Exploiting the structure of a suitably reduced optimality system, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-03 Fernando Gaspoz , Christian Kreuzer , Andreas Veeser , Winnifried Wollner

This work addresses an optimal control problem for a semilinear elliptic equation in two-dimensional space, characterized by an exponential nonlinearity and a singular source term. The source is modeled as a finite linear combination of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Vu Huu Nhu

We discuss several optimization procedures to solve finite element approximations of linear-quadratic Dirichlet optimal control problems governed by an elliptic partial differential equation posed on a 2D or 3D Lipschitz domain. The control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Mariano Mateos

The paper deals with the distributed minimum sharing problem: a set of decision-makers compute the minimum of some local quantities of interest in a distributed and decentralized way by exchanging information through a communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-28 Michelangelo Bin , Thomas Parisini

In this paper, we prove that there exists a unique solution to the Dirichlet boundary value problem for a general class of semilinear second order elliptic partial differential equations. Our approach is probabilistic. The theory of…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-11-19 Tusheng Zhang

This paper is concerned with a shape optimization problem governed by a non-smooth PDE, i.e., the nonlinearity in the state equation is not necessarily differentiable. We follow the functional variational approach of [40] where the set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Livia Betz

We study iterative finite element approximations for the numerical approximation of semilinear elliptic boundary value problems with monotone nonlinear reactions of subcritical growth. The focus of our contribution is on an optimal a priori…

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