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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…

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In this research paper, we examine an optimal control problem involving a dynamical system governed by a nonlinear Caputo fractional time-delay state equation. The primary objective of this study is to obtain the necessary conditions for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Jasarat J. Gasimov , Nazim I. Mahmudov

Necessary optimality conditions and numerical methods for solving an optimal control problem for a linear continuous-time dynanical system with controlled coefficients and quadratic goal functional are discussed.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-04-20 Olga V. Baturina , Alexander V. Bulatov , Vadim F. Krotov

We investigate the hard-thresholding method applied to optimal control problems with $L^0(\Omega)$ control cost, which penalizes the measure of the support of the control. As the underlying measure space is non-atomic, arguments of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Daniel Wachsmuth

We consider the class of nonlinear optimal control problems (OCP) with polynomial data, i.e., the differential equation, state and control con- straints and cost are all described by polynomials, and more generally for OCPs with smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-14 Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Didier Henrion , Christophe Prieur , Emmanuel Trélat

We consider semilinear parabolic optimal control problems subject to Neumann boundary conditions, control constraints, and an infinite time horizon. The control constraints are pointwise in time, but they can be pointwise or integral in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Eduardo Casas , Nicolai Jork

A class of infinite horizon optimal control problems involving $L^p$-type cost functionals with $0<p\leq 1$ is discussed. The existence of optimal controls is studied for both the convex case with $p=1$ and the nonconvex case with $0<p<1$,…

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In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems for Allen-Cahn equations with singular nonlinearities and a dynamic boundary condition involving singular nonlinearities and the Laplace-Beltrami operator. The approach covers both the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-27 Pierluigi Colli , Jürgen Sprekels

We here consider optimal control problems governed by nonlinear stochastic equations on a Hilbert space H with nonconvex payoff, which is rewritten as a deterministic optimal control problem governed by a Kolmogorov equation in H. We prove…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Viorel Barbu , Michael Röckner , Deng Zhang

The paper presents results about strong metric subregularity of the optimality mapping associated with the system of first-order necessary optimality conditions for a problem of optimal control of a semilinear parabolic equation. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Alberto Domínguez Corella , Nicolai Jork , Vladimir M. Veliov

Given an optimal control problem on a heterogeneous body with a periodical structure of particles depending on a small parameter e, we study the asymptotic behavior, as e converges to zero, of the optimal control functional and the optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 J. I. Díaz , T. A. Shaposhnikova , A. V. Podolskiy

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…

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This paper is concerned with optimal control problems for parabolic partial differential equations with pointwise in time switching constraints on the control. A standard approach to treat constraints in nonlinear optimization is…

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In this paper, an optimal control problem governed by a class of p-Laplacian elliptic equations is studied. In particular, as no monotonicity assumption is assumed on the nonlinear term, the state equation may admit several solutions for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Hongwei Lou , Shu Luan

This paper characterizes the solution to a finite horizon min-max optimal control problem where the system is linear and discrete-time with control and state constraints, and the cost quadratic; the disturbance is negatively costed, as in…

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We consider an optimization problem related to elliptic PDEs of the form $-{\rm div}(a(x)\nabla u)=f$ with Dirichlet boundary condition on a given domain $\Omega$. The coefficient $a(x)$ has to be determined, in a suitable given class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Juan Casado-Díaz , Faustino Maestre

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-09 Hélène Frankowska , Haisen Zhang , Xu Zhang

This paper proposes an optimal control problem for a parabolic equation with a nonlocal nonlinearity. The system is described by a parabolic equation involving a nonlinear term that depends on the solution and its integral over the domain.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Cyrille Kenne , Landry Djomegne , Gisèle Mophou

We consider an optimal control problem for the steady-state Kirchhoff equation, a prototype for nonlocal partial differential equations, different from fractional powers of closed operators. Existence and uniqueness of solutions of the…

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