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It is by now well known that the use of Carleman estimates allows to establish the control-lability to trajectories of nonlinear parabolic equations. However, by this approach, it is not clear how to decide whether a given function is…
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Nonconvex optimal-control problems governed by evolution problems in infinite-dimensional spaces (as e.g. parabolic boundary-value problems) needs a continuous (and possibly also smooth) extension on some (preferably convex)…
We consider optimal control problems for partial differential equations where the controls take binary values but vary over the time horizon, they can thus be seen as dynamic switches. The switching patterns may be subject to combinatorial…
We consider the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem for second-order quasilinear non-divergence form operators of parabolic type. The data are Cara\-th\'e\-o\-dory functions, and the principal part is of $VMO_x$-type with respect to the variables $…
In this paper, we consider a parabolic PDE on a torus of arbitrary dimension. The nonlinear term is a smooth function of polynomial growth of any degree. In this general setting, the corresponding Cauchy problem is not necessarily well…
In a wide class of the so called Obstacle Problems of parabolic type it is shown how to improve the optimal regularity of the solution and as a consequence how to obtain space-time regularity of the corresponding free boundary.
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