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We study a control problem governed by a semilinear parabolic equation. The control is a measure that acts as the kernel of a possibly nonlocal time delay term and the functional includes a non-differentiable term with the measure-norm of…

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In this paper, we investigate an optimal control problem governed by parabolic equations with measure-valued controls over time. We establish the well-posedness of the optimal control problem and derive the first-order optimality condition…

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In this paper, we are concerned with optimal control problems evolved on Riemannian manifolds, where the initial and final states satisfy some inequality and equality type constraints, and the control set is a separable metric space. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Li Deng , Xu Zhang

We consider linear model reduction in both the control and state variables for unconstrained linear-quadratic optimal control problems subject to time-varying parabolic PDEs. The first-order optimality condition for a state-space reduced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Michael Kartmann , Stefan Volkwein

This paper is the first part of our series work to establish pointwise second-order necessary conditions for stochastic optimal controls. In this part, both drift and diffusion terms may contain the control variable but the control region…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-10 Haisen Zhang , Xu Zhang

In this work, we consider the two dimensional tidal dynamics equations in a bounded domain and address some optimal control problems like total energy minimization, minimization of dissipation of energy of the flow, etc. We also examine an…

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The main purpose of this paper is to establish the first and second order necessary optimality conditions for stochastic optimal controls using the classical variational analysis approach. The control system is governed by a stochastic…

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In this paper we consider a constrained parabolic optimal control problem. The cost functional is quadratic and it combines the distance of the trajectory of the system from the desired evolution profile together with the cost of a control.…

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In this paper, we consider a class of optimal control problems for a one-dimensional time-discrete constrained quasilinear diffusion state-systems of singular Allen--Cahn types and its regularized approximating problems. We note that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Shodai Kubota

We study local controllability and optimal control problems for invertible discrete-time control systems. We present second order necessary conditions for optimality and sufficient conditions for local controllability. The conditions are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-30 M. Barbero-Liñán , B. Jakubczyk

We consider a controlled state equation of parabolic type on the halfline $(0,+\infty)$ with boundary conditions of Dirichlet type in which the unknown is equal to the sum of the control and of a white noise in time. We study finite horizon…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-04-10 Federica Masiero

An optimal control problem driven by an ordinary differential equation under continuous state constraints is considered in this study. From an operational point of view, we introduce a discrete state constraints optimal control problem and…

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We consider an optimal control problem governed by a semilinear PDE in cases where the optimal control is of bang-bang type. By utilizing the theory of Bessel potential space, we characterize quadratic growth of the objective via a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Gerd Wachsmuth

We would like to study the solution stability of a parametric control problem governed by semilinear elliptic equations with a mixed state-control constraint, where the cost function is nonconvex and the admissible set is unbounded. The…

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We study nonlinear singular optimal control problems of port-Hamil-tonian (descriptor) systems. We employ general control-affine cost functionals that include as a special case the energy supplied to the system. We first derive optimality…

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In this article we study optimal control problems for systems that are affine in one part of the control variable. Finitely many equality and inequality constraints on the initial and final values of the state are considered. We investigate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-15 M. Soledad Aronna

We analyze a bilinear control problem governed by a semilinear parabolic equation. The control variable is the Robin coefficient on the boundary. First-order necessary and second-order sufficient optimality conditions are derived. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Eduardo Casas , Mariano Mateos

We give answer to an open question by proving a sufficient optimality condition for state-linear optimal control problems with time delays in state and control variables. In the proof of our main result, we transform a delayed state-linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Ana P. Lemos-Paiao , Cristiana J. Silva , Delfim F. M. Torres

In this paper we consider some optimal control problems governed by elliptic partial differential equations. The solution is the state variable, while the control variable is, depending on the case, the coefficient of the PDE, the…

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