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We consider optimal control of an elliptic two-point boundary value problem governed by functions of bounded variation (BV). The cost functional is composed of a tracking term for the state and the BV-seminorm of the control. We use the…
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In this paper, we introduce novel equations that are dual to the ones of the well-known invariant ellipsoids method. These equations yield ellipsoids with newly established geometrical interpretations and connections to linear system norms.…
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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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We develop new solvability methods for divergence form second order, real and complex, elliptic systems above Lipschitz graphs, with $L_2$ boundary data. The coefficients $A$ may depend on all variables, but are assumed to be close to…
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