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A general setup for deterministic system identification problems on graphs with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions is introduced. When control nodes are available along the boundary, we apply a discretize-then-optimize method to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Mehdi Garrousian , Amirhossein Nouranizadeh

In this paper we consider the optimal control of semilinear fractional PDEs with both spectral and integral fractional diffusion operators of order $2s$ with $s \in (0,1)$. We first prove the boundedness of solutions to both semilinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Harbir Antil , Mahamadi Warma

For some spatially nonlocal diffusion models with a finite range of nonlocal interactions measured by a positive parameter $\delta$, we review their formulation defined on a bounded domain subject to various conditions that correspond to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-27 Qiang Du , Xiaochuan Tian , Zhi Zhou

Distributed-order fractional non-local operators have been introduced and studied by Caputo at the end of the 20th century. They generalize fractional order derivatives/integrals in the sense that such operators are defined by a weighted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Faical Ndairou , Delfim F. M. Torres

We make a complete analysis of the controllability properties from the exterior of the (possible) strong damping wave equation with the fractional Laplace operator subject to the nonhomogeneous Dirichlet type exterior condition. In the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-19 Mahamadi Warma , Sebastian Zamorano

Parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) are in ubiquitous, very effective use to model diffusion processes. However, there are many applications (e.g., such as in hydrology, animal foraging, biology, and light diffusion just do name…

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For nonlinear operators of fractional $p$-Laplace type, we consider two types of solutions to the nonlocal Dirichlet problem: Sobolev solutions based on fractional Sobolev spaces and Perron solutions based on superharmonic functions. These…

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We analyze an optimal control problem with pointwise tracking for a fractional semilinear elliptic partial differential equation. The diffusion is characterized by the spectral fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$ with $s \in (1/2,1)$, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

We consider a model of fractional diffusion involving the natural nonlocal version of the $p$-Laplacian operator. We study the Dirichlet problem posed in a bounded domain $\Omega$ of ${\mathbb{R}}^N$ with zero data outside of $\Omega$, for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-02 Juan Luis Vázquez

The integral fractional Laplacian of order $s \in (0,1)$ is a nonlocal operator. It is known that solutions to the Dirichlet problem involving such an operator exhibit an algebraic boundary singularity regardless of the domain regularity.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Juan Pablo Borthagaray , Dmitriy Leykekhman , Ricardo H. Nochetto

We study the homogeneous Cauchy-Dirichlet Problem (CDP) for a nonlinear and nonlocal diffusion equation of singular type of the form $\partial_t u =-\mathcal{L} u^m$ posed on a bounded Euclidean domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ with…

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We derive the dual variational principle (principle of minimal complementary energy) for the nonlocal nonlinear scalar diffusion problem, which may be viewed as the nonlocal version of the $p$-Laplacian operator. We establish existence and…

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We propose and analyze a new discretization technique for a linear-quadratic optimal control problem involving the fractional powers of a symmetric and uniformly elliptic second oder operator; control constraints are considered. Since these…

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In this paper we survey some results on the Dirichlet problem \[\left\{ \begin{array}{rcll} L u &=&f&\textrm{in }\Omega \\ u&=&g&\textrm{in }\mathbb R^n\backslash\Omega \end{array}\right.\] for nonlocal operators of the form…

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We show that the boundary behaviour of solutions to nonlocal fractional equations posed in bounded domains strongly differs from the one of solutions to elliptic problems modelled upon the Laplace-Poisson equation with zero boundary data.…

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We consider the inverse multiphase Stefan problem with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition on a bounded Lipschitz domain, where the density of the heat source is unknown in addition to the temperature and the phase transition…

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We present an approach for solving optimal Dirichlet boundary control problems of nonlinear optics by using deep learning. For computing high resolution approximations of the solution to the nonlinear wave model, we propose higher order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Nils Margenberg , Franz X. Kärtner , Markus Bause

This paper investigates the optimal control problem for a class of parabolic equations where the diffusion coefficient is influenced by a control function acting nonlocally. Specifically, we consider the optimization of a cost functional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Stefana-Lucia Anita , Luca Di Persio