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This work establishes a general stochastic maximum principle for partially observed optimal control of semi-linear stochastic partial differential equations in a nonconvex control domain. The state evolves in a Hilbert space driven by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Yanzhao Cao , Hongjiang Qian , George Yin

The solutions of boundary value problems for the Laplacian and the bilaplacian exhibit very different qualitative behaviors. Particularly, the failure of general maximum principles for the bilaplacian implies that solutions of higher-order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-10 Alberto Saldaña

In this work, we use the integral definition of the fractional Laplace operator and study a sparse optimal control problem involving a fractional, semilinear, and elliptic partial differential equation as state equation; control constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Francisco Bersetche , Francisco Fuica , Enrique Otarola , Daniel Quero

We study boundary regularity for solutions to a class of equations involving the so called regional fractional Lapacians $(-\Delta)^s_\Omega $, with $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N$. Recall that the regional fractional Laplacians are generated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Mouhamed Moustapha Fall

In this paper error analysis for finite element discretizations of Dirichlet boundary control problems is developed. For the first time, optimal discretization error estimates are established in the case of three dimensional polyhedral and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Johannes Pfefferer , Boris Vexler

Reactio-nonlocal diffusion equations model nonlocal transport and anomalous diffusion by replacing the Laplacian with a fractional power, capturing diffusion mechanisms beyond Brownian motion. We primarily study the semilinear problem \[…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Pu Yuan , Paul A. Zegeling

We investigate a distributed optimal control problem for a nonlocal phase field model of viscous Cahn-Hilliard type. The model constitutes a nonlocal version of a model for two-species phase segregation on an atomic lattice under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

In this thesis we investigate how the nonlocalities affect the study of different PDEs coming from physics, and we analyze these equations under almost optimal assumptions of the nonlinearity. In particular, we focus on the fractional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Marco Gallo

We study a general class of elliptic free boundary problems equipped with a Dirichlet boundary condition. Our primary result establishes an optimal $C^{1,1}$-regularity estimate for $L^p$-strong solutions at points where the free and fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Damião J. Araújo , Andreas Minne , Edgard A. Pimentel

We study the problem of optimal inside control of an SPDE (a stochastic evolution equation) driven by a Brownian motion and a Poisson random measure. Our optimal control problem is new in two ways: (i) The controller has access to inside…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Olfa Draouil , Bernt Øksendal

The aim of this paper is twofold: First, we characterize an essentially optimal class of boundary operators $\Theta$ which give rise to self-adjoint Laplacians $-\Delta_{\Theta, \Omega}$ in $L^2(\Omega; d^n x)$ with (nonlocal and local)…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2010-02-04 Fritz Gesztesy , Marius Mitrea

We consider a linear non-local heat equation in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq 1$, with Dirichlet boundary conditions, where the non-locality is given by the presence of an integral kernel. Motivated by several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Umberto Biccari , Víctor Hernández-Santamaría , Loic Louison , Abdennebi Omrane

In this article we consider the Dirichlet problem on a bounded domain $\Omega \subset {\bf R}^d$ with respect to a second-order elliptic differential operator in divergence form. We do not assume a divergence condition as in the pioneering…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-19 W. Arendt , A. F. M. ter Elst , M. Sauter

This study investigates Dirichlet boundary condition related to a class of nonlinear parabolic problem with nonnegative $L^1$-data, which has a variable-order fractional $p$-Laplacian operator. The existence and uniqueness of renormalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Sixuan Liu , Gang Dong , Hui Bi , Boying Wu

We study a non-local optimal control problem involving a linear, bond-based peridynamics model. In addition to existence and uniqueness of solutions to our problem, we investigate their behavior as the horizon parameter $\delta$, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Tadele Mengesha , Abner J. Salgado , Joshua M. Siktar

A tracking type optimal control problem for a nonlinear and nonlocal kinetic Fokker-Planck equation which arises as the mean field limit of an interacting particle systems that is subject to distance dependent random fluctuations is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Tobias Breiten , Karl Kunisch

In this paper, we study an optimal boundary control problem for a model for phase separation taking place in a spatial domain that was introduced by Podio-Guidugli in Ric. Mat. 55 (2006), pp. 105-118. The model consists of a strongly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-08 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

The three concepts of exact, null and approximate controllabilities are analyzed from the exterior of the Moore--Gibson--Thompson equation associated with the fractional Laplace operator subject to the nonhomogeneous Dirichlet type exterior…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Carlos Lizama , M. Warma , Sebastian Zamorano

This paper introduces a new class of variational inequalities where the obstacle is placed in the exterior domain that is disjoint from the observation domain. This is carried out with the help of nonlocal fractional operators. The need for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Harbir Antil , Madeline O. Horton , Mahamadi Warma

Motivated by various applications, this article develops the notion of boundary control for Maxwell's equations in the frequency domain. Surface curl is shown to be the appropriate regularization in order for the optimal control problem to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Harbir Antil , Hugo Díaz