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In this article we establish new inequalities, both conditional and unconditional, for the restriction problem associated to the hyperbolic, or one-sheeted, hyperboloid in three dimensions, endowed with a Lorentz-invariant measure. These…
Infinite horizon open loop optimal control problems for semilinear parabolic equations are investigated. The controls are subject to a cost-functional which promotes sparsity in time. The focus is put on deriving first order optimality…
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…
We study the parabolic free boundary problem of obstacle type $$ \lap u-\frac{\partial u}{\partial t}= f\chi_{{u\ne 0}}. $$ Under the condition that $f=Hv$ for some function $v$ with bounded second order spatial derivatives and bounded…
This work is concerned with a switching point optimization problem governed by a semilinear parabolic equation in abstract function spaces. It is shown that the switching-point-to-control mapping is continuously Fr\'echet-differentiable…
In this paper we discuss the optimal control of a quasilinear parabolic state equation. Its form is leaned on the kind of problems arising for example when controlling the anisotropic Allen-Cahn equation as a model for crystal growth.…
We derive necessary conditions for optimality in control problems governed by hyperbolic partial differential equations in Goursat-Darboux form. The conditions consist of a set of Hamiltonian equations in Goursat form, side conditions for…
In this paper we present an abstract maximal $L^p$-regularity result up to $T = \infty$, that is tuned to capture (linear) Partial Differential Equations of parabolic type, defined on a bounded domain and subject to finite dimensional,…
We consider the optimization problem for a shape cost functional $F(\Omega,f)$ which depends on a domain $\Omega$ varying in a suitable admissible class and on a "right-hand side" $f$. More precisely, the cost functional $F$ is given by an…
This work is concerned with a class of optimal control problems governed by a partial differential equation that are motivated by an application in radiotherapy treatment planning, where the primary design objective is to minimize the…
Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ be an open set in space-time with boundary $\Sigma = \partial \Omega$. Under minimal and natural background assumptions - namely, that $\Sigma$ is time-symmetrically parabolic Ahlfors--David regular and…
We calculate arbitrarily tight upper and lower bounds on an unconstrained control, linear-quadratic, singularly perturbed optimal control problem whose exact solution is computationally intractable. It is well known that for the…
We study a control problem governed by a semilinear parabolic equation with pointwise control and state constraints imposed at every point of the space-time cylinder. We obtain second order sufficient optimality conditions for local…
In this paper, we consider a general time-inconsistent optimal control problem for a non homogeneous linear system, in which its state evolves according to a stochastic differential equation with deterministic coefficients, when the noise…
In this work we study the asymptotic behavior of the solutions of a class of abstract parabolic time optimal control problems when the generators converge, in an appropriate sense, to a given strictly negative operator. Our main application…
As opposed to the distributed control of parabolic PDE's, very few contributions currently exist pertaining to the Dirichlet boundary condition control for parabolic PDE's. This motivates our interest in the Dirichlet boundary condition…
Computable estimates for the error of finite element discretisations of parabolic problems in the $L^\infty(0,T; L^2)$ norm are developed, which exhibit constant effectivities (the ratio of the estimated error to the true error) with…
In this paper, we continue the study of some controllability issues for the forward stochastic heat equation with dynamic boundary conditions. The main novelty in the present paper consists of considering only one control without extra…
The aim of this work is to present some strategies to solve numerically controllability problems for the two-dimensional heat equation, the Stokes equations and the Navier-Stokes equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The main idea…
In this paper, we present a method that enables solving in parallel the Euler-Lagrange system associated with the optimal control of a parabolic equation. Our approach is based on an iterative update of a sequence of intermediate targets…