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We study problems of optimal boundary control with systems governed by linear hyperbolic partial differential equations. The objective function is quadratic and given by an integral over the finite time interval $(0,\, T)$ that depends on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-08 Martin Gugat , Falk Hante

In this manuscript, we study the turnpike property in stochastic discrete-time optimal control problems for interacting agents. Extending previous deterministic results, we show that the turnpike effect persists in the presence of noise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Fabio Cassini , Chiara Segala

In many practical applications of control theory some constraints on the state and/or on the control need to be imposed. In this paper, we prove controllability results for semilinear parabolic equations under positivity constraints on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Dario Pighin , Enrique Zuazua

We study the local stability properties of solutions to ergodic and discounted mean field games systems, as the time horizon $T \to +\infty$, around stationary equilibria, when the Hamiltonian is quadratic. We replace the usual monotonicity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Marco Cirant , Nicolò De Bernardi

This paper is concerned with an optimal control problem for a nonhomogeneous linear stochastic differential equation having regime switching with a quadratic functional in the large time horizon. This is a continuation of the paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Hongwei Mei , Rui Wang , Jiongmin Yong

The paper establishes the exponential turnpike property for a class of mean-field stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problems with periodic coefficients. It first introduces the concepts of stability, stabilizability, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Jingrui Sun , Lvning Yuan , Jiaqi Zhang

Turnpike phenomena of nonlinear port-Hamiltonian descriptor systems under minimal energy supply are studied. Under assumptions on the smoothness of the system nonlinearities, it is shown that the optimal control problem is dissipative with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Attila Karsai

We revisit finite-dimensional linear-quadratic optimal control from the viewpoint of differential flatness. If the pair (A, B) is controllable, then the linear control system is flat, and every trajectory can be parametrized by a flat…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Michel Fliess , Claude Lobry , Emmanuel Trélat

We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions to linear-quadratic mean field stochastic optimal control problems. By formulating an ergodic control framework, we characterize the convergence between the finite time horizon control problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Erhan Bayraktar , Jiamin Jian

Classical turnpikes correspond to optimal steady states which are attractors of optimal control problems. In this paper, motivated by mechanical systems with symmetries, we generalize this concept to manifold turnpikes. Specifically, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-08 Timm Faulwasser , Kathrin Flaßkamp , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann

This paper is concerned with optimal control problems for a linear homogeneous stochastic differential equation having regime switching with purely quadratic functional in the large time horizons. We establish the so-called turnpike…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Hongwei Mei , Rui Wang , Jiongmin Yong

A counterexample to uniqueness of global minimizers of semilinear optimal control problems is given. The lack of uniqueness occurs for a special choice of the state-target in the cost functional. Our arguments show also that, for some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Dario Pighin

In this paper we establish several results on approximate controllability of a semilinear wave equation by making use of a single multiplicative control. These results are then applied to discuss the exact controllability properties for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-16 Mohamed Ouzahra

In this paper, we study the turnpike property in age structured population dynamics with birth control. These models describe the temporal evolution of one or more populations, incorporating age dependence and spatial structure. To this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Marius Bargo , Yacouba Simpore

We establish a polynomial turnpike estimate for an optimal control problem consisting of a system of infinitely many controlled oscillators, considered as an abstract differential equation in a Hilbert space, with a quadratic cost. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Alexander Zuyev , Emmanuel Trélat

We introduce and study the turnpike property for time-varying shapes, within the viewpoint of optimal control. We focus here on second-order linear parabolic equations where the shape acts as a source term and we seek the optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Gontran Lance , Emmanuel Trélat , Enrique Zuazua

This paper presents a simulation study on turnpike phenomena in stochastic optimal control problems. We employ the framework of Polynomial Chaos Expansions (PCE) to investigate the presence of turnpikes in stochastic LQ problems. Our…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Ruchuan Ou , Michael Heinrich Baumann , Lars Grüne , Timm Faulwasser

We present turnpike-type results for the risk tolerance function in an incomplete market setting under time-monotone forward performance criteria. We show that, contrary to the classical case, the temporal and spatial limits do not…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-02-21 Tianran Geng , Thaleia Zariphopoulou

In this paper we investigate the turnpike property for constrained LQ optimal control problem in connection with dissipativity of the control system. We determine sufficient conditions to ensure the turnpike property in the case of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Zhuqing Li , Roberto Guglielmi

We analyze the sensitivity of the extremal equations that arise from the first order necessary optimality conditions of nonlinear optimal control problems with respect to perturbations of the dynamics and of the initial data. To this end,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Lars Grüne , Manuel Schaller , Anton Schiela