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We study optimal bilinear control problems for stochastic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations in both the mass subcritical and critical case. For general initial data of the minimal L2 regularity, we prove the existence and first order…
A general bilinear optimal control problem subject to an infinite-dimensional state equation is considered. Polynomial approximations of the associated value function are derived around the steady state by repeated formal differentiation of…
We study a bilinear OCP for an evolution equation governed by the fractional Laplacian of order $0 < s < 1$, incorporating a nonlocal time component modeled by an integral kernel. After establishing well-posedness of the problem, we analyze…
In this paper we establish second-order sufficient optimality conditions for a boundary control problem that has been introduced and studied by three of the authors in the preprint arXiv:1407.3916. This control problem regards the viscous…
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This paper presents an inverse optimality method to solve the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for a class of nonlinear problems for which the cost is quadratic and the dynamics are affine in the input. The method is inverse optimal because…
In this paper we will discuss some new developments in the design of numerical methods for optimal control problems of Lagrangian systems on Lie groups. We will construct these geometric integrators using discrete variational calculus on…
In this paper, we analyze optimal control problems governed by semilinear parabolic equations. Box constraints for the controls are imposed and the cost functional involves the state and possibly a sparsity-promoting term, but not a…
In this article, we consider the Tikhonov regularization of an optimal control problem of semilinear partial differential equations with box constraints on the control. We derive a-priori regularization error estimates for the control under…
Coherent single-electron control in a realistic semiconductor double quantum dot is studied theoretically. Using optimal-control theory we show that the energy spectrum of a two-dimensional double quantum dot has a fully controllable…
In this paper we study the bilinear-control problem for the linear and non-linear Schr{\"o}dinger equation with harmonic potential. By the means of different examples, we show how space-time smoothing effects (Strichartz estimates, Kato…
We consider optimal control of fractional in time (subdiffusive, i.e., for $% 0<\gamma <1$) semilinear parabolic PDEs associated with various notions of diffusion operators in an unifying fashion. Under general assumptions on the…
In this paper we present necessary and sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of invariant cones, for semigroup actions, in the space of the $k$-fold exterior product. As consequence we establish a necessary and sufficient…
We study the numerical algorithm and error analysis for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with dynamic boundary conditions. A second-order in time, linear and energy stable scheme is proposed, which is an extension of the first-order stabilized…
The purpose of this paper is to derive some pointwise second-order necessary conditions for stochastic optimal controls in the general case that the control variable enters into both the drift and the diffusion terms. When the control…
Novel nonlinear damping control is proposed for the second-order systems. The proportional output feedback is combined with the damping term which is quadratic to the output derivative and inverse to the set-point distance. The global…
In this work, we study the controllability of the bilinear Schr\"odinger equation on infinite graphs for periodic quantum states. We consider the bilinear Schr\"odinger equation $i\partial_t\psi=-\Delta\psi+u(t)B\psi$ in the Hilbert space…
A major application of the mathematical concept of graph in quantum mechanics is to model networks of electrical wires or electromagnetic wave-guides. In this paper, we address the dynamics of a particle trapped on such a network in…
We are concerned with the optimal control problem of the well known nonlocal thermistor problem, i.e., in studying the heat transfer in the resistor device whose electrical conductivity is strongly dependent on the temperature. Existence of…