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We establish a variety of results extending the well-known Pontryagin maximum principle of optimal control to discrete-time optimal control problems posed on smooth manifolds. These results are organized around a new theorem on critical and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-14 Robert Kipka , Rohit Gupta

We consider the control problem of the stochastic Navier-Stokes equations in multidimensional domains introduced in \cite{ocpc} restricted to noise terms defined by Q-Wiener processes. Using a stochastic maximum principle, we derive a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Peter Benner , Christoph Trautwein

We systematically introduce an approach to the analysis and (numerical) solution of a broad class of nonlinear unconstrained optimal control problems, involving ordinary and distributed systems. Our approach relies on exact representations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Nikolay Pogodaev , Maxim Staritsyn

The famous proof of the Pontryagin maximum principle for control problems on a finite horizon bases on the needle variation technique, as well as the separability concept of cones created by disturbances of the trajectories. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-05 Nico Tauchnitz

In this paper, we formulate a distributed optimal control problem related to the evolution of two isothermal, incompressible, immiscible fluids in a two dimensional bounded domain. The distributed optimal control problem is framed as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Tania Biswas , Sheetal Dharmatti , Manil T Mohan

Optimality conditions in the form of a variational inequality are proved for a class of constrained optimal control problems of stochastic differential equations. The cost function and the inequality constraints are functions of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Laurent Pfeiffer

In this study, we consider an optimal control problem driven by a stochastic differential equation with state constraints. Here, the state constraints mean the constraints about the path of state. In order to show the maximum principe for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Shuzhen Yang

This work is a continuation of the previous one in [{\it Optimization} (2023)], where the existence of optimal solutions and first-order necessary optimality conditions in both Pontryagin's maximum principle form and the variational form…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Cung The Anh , Nguyen Hai Ha Giang

We study a continuous time stochastic optimal control problem under partial observations that are available only at discrete time instants. This hybrid setting, with continuous dynamics and intermittent noisy measurements, arises in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Christian Bayer , Saifeddine Ben naamia , Erik von Schwerin , Raul Tempone

We consider distributed-order non-local fractional optimal control problems with controls taking values on a closed set and prove a strong necessary optimality condition of Pontryagin type. The possibility that admissible controls are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Faical Ndairou , Delfim F. M. Torres

This paper investigates the robust optimal control of sampled-data stochastic systems with multiplicative noise and distributional ambiguity. We consider a class of discrete-time optimal control problems where the controller \emph{jointly}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Chung-Han Hsieh

In this paper we derive a necessary optimality condition for a local optimal solution of some control problems. These optimal control problems are governed by a semi-linear Vettsel boundary value problem of a linear elliptic equation. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-04-08 Yousong Luo

The geodesic problem in Wasserstein spaces with a metric perturbed by a conformal factor is considered, and necessary optimality conditions are estabilished in a case where this conformal factor favours the spreading of the probability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Luigi Ambrosio , Filippo Santambrogio

In this article, we derive conditions for the existence of solutions to state-constrained continuity inclusions in Wasserstein spaces whose right-hand sides may be discontinuous in time. These latter are based on a fine investigation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Benoît Bonnet-Weill , Hélène Frankowska

The paper presents an approach to studying optimal control problems in the space of nonnegative measures with dynamics given by a nonlocal balance law. This approach relies on transforming the balance law into a continuity equation in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Nikolay Pogodaev , Maxim Staritsyn

We study first-order optimality conditions for constrained optimization in the Wasserstein space, whereby one seeks to minimize a real-valued function over the space of probability measures endowed with the Wasserstein distance. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Nicolas Lanzetti , Saverio Bolognani , Florian Dörfler

In this paper, we consider a class of stochastic control problems for stochastic differential equations with random coefficients. The control domain need not to be convex but the control process is not allowed to enter in diffusion term.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Ishak Alia , Mohamed Sofiane Alia

This paper concerns a class of infinite horizon optimal control problems with state constraints. By extending the needle variation method to the infinite horizon case we obtain a complete set of necessary optimality conditions for a strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Nico Tauchnitz

We consider nonsmooth optimal control problems subject to a linear elliptic partial differential equation with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. It is well-known that local solutions satisfy the celebrated Pontryagin maximum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Daniel Wachsmuth

This paper is the second part of our series of work to establish pointwise second-order necessary conditions for stochastic optimal controls. In this part, we consider the general cases, i.e., the control region is allowed to be nonconvex,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Haisen Zhang , Xu Zhang