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English version of abstract: The dynamic optimization problems treated by the calculus of variations are usually solved with the help of the 2nd order Euler-Lagrange differential equations. These equations are, generally speaking,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-09-02 Paulo D. F. Gouveia , Delfim F. M. Torres

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Daniel Wachsmuth

We develop an elementary method to give a Lipschitz estimate for the minimizers in the problem of Herglotz' variational principle proposed in \cite{CCWY2018} in the time-dependent case. We deduce Erdmann's condition and the Euler-Lagrange…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Piermarco Cannarsa , Wei Cheng , Liang Jin , Kaizhi Wang , Jun Yan

In this paper we develop a variational method for the Loewner equation in higher dimensions. As a result we obtain a version of Pontryagin's maximum principle from optimal control theory for the Loewner equation in several complex…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2014-02-28 Oliver Roth

We obtain a discrete time analog of E. Noether's theorem in Optimal Control, asserting that integrals of motion associated to the discrete time Pontryagin Maximum Principle can be computed from the quasi-invariance properties of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Delfim F. M. Torres

An optimal control problem for a semilinear elliptic equation of divergence form is considered. Both the leading term and the semilinear term of the state equation contain the control. The well-known Pontryagin type maximum principle for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Hongwei Lou , Jiongmin Yong

We develop a unified geometric framework for dissipative mechanical systems based on uniform $q$-contact manifolds, which provide an extended phase space equipped with multiple contact $1$-forms. Within this setting, we construct both…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Melvin Leok , Cristina Sardón , Xuefeng Zhao

A general study of symmetries in optimal control theory is given, starting from the presymplectic description of this kind of system. Then, Noether's theorem, as well as the corresponding reduction procedure (based on the application of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 A. Echeverría-Enríquez , J. Marín-Solano , M. C. Muñoz-Lecanda , N. Román-Roy

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-28 Cyrille Kenne , Gisèle Mophou , Mahamadi Warma

We establish a generalization of Noether theorem for stochastic optimal control problems. Exploiting the tools of jet bundles and contact geometry, we prove that from any (contact) symmetry of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation associated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Francesco C. De Vecchi , Elisa Mastrogiacomo , Mattia Turra , Stefania Ugolini

We introduce an generalized action functional describing the equations of motion and the variational equations for any Lagrangian system. Using this novel scheme we are able to generalize Noether's theorem in such a way that to any…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 C. M. Arizmendi , J. Delgado , H. N. Núñez-Yépez , A. L. Salas-Brito

We prove Euler-Lagrange type equations and transversality conditions for generalized infinite horizon problems of the calculus of variations on time scales. Here the Lagrangian depends on the independent variable, an unknown function and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-31 Monika Dryl , Delfim F. M. Torres

We extend Noether's symmetry theorem to fractional action-like variational problems with higher-order derivatives.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-11-06 Gastao S. F. Frederico , Delfim F. M. Torres

We prove Noether-type theorems for fractional isoperimetric variational problems with Riemann-Liouville derivatives. Both Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations are obtained. Illustrative examples, in the fractional context of the calculus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-09 Gastao S. F. Frederico , Delfim F. M. Torres

This note is concerned with an optimal control problem governed by the relativistic Maxwell-Newton-Lorentz equations, which describes the motion of charges particles in electro-magnetic fields and consists of a hyperbolic PDE system coupled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-27 C. Meyer , S. M. Schnepp , O. Thoma

Higher order necessary conditions for a minimizer of an optimal control problem are generally obtained for systems whose dynamics is continuously differentiable in the state variable. Here, by making use of the notion of set-valued Lie…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Francesca Angrisani , Franco Rampazzo

The theory of the calculus of variations for fuzzy systems was recently initiated in [7], with the proof of the fuzzy Euler-Lagrange equation. Using fuzzy Euler-Lagrange equation, we obtain here a Noether-like theorem for fuzzy variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-23 J. Soolaki , O. S. Fard , R. Almeida , A. H. Borzabadi

In this work, we analyse the discretisation of a recently proposed new Lagrangian approach to optimal control problems of affine-controlled second-order differential equations with cost functions quadratic in the controls. We propose exact…

Invariant conditions for conformable fractional problems of the calculus of variations under the presence of external forces in the dynamics are studied. Depending on the type of transformations considered, different necessary conditions of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-14 Matheus J. Lazo , Delfim F. M. Torres

In this paper the structures of the generalised Euler-Lagrange equations and their associated conserved quantities are derived for one-dimensional Herglotz variational problems of order $n$. Their derivations use the framework of moving…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Tânia M. N. Gonçalves , Delfim F. M. Torres , Gastão S. F. Frederico