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This paper considers optimal control of fractional parabolic PDEs with both state and control constraints. The key challenge is how to handle the state constraints. Similarly, to the elliptic case, in this paper, we establish several new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Harbir Antil , Thomas S. Brown , Deepanshu Verma , Mahamadi Warma

Existence of optimal solutions and necessary optimality conditions for a controlled version of Moreau's sweeping process are derived. The control is a measurable ingredient of the dynamics and the constraint set is a polyhedron. The novelty…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Giovanni Colombo , Paolo Gidoni

The main goal of this paper is developing the method of discrete approximations to derive necessary optimality conditions for a class of constrained sweeping processes with nonsmooth perturbations. Optimal control problems for sweeping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-13 Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen

We consider a class of time-dependent inclusions in Hilbert spaces for which we state and prove an existence and uniqueness result. The proof is based on arguments of variational inequalities, convex analysis and fixed point theory. Then we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-14 Samir Adly , Mircea Sofonea

Within density-functional theory, Moreau-Yosida regularization enables both a reformulation of the theory and a mathematically well-defined definition of the Kohn-Sham approach. It is further employed in density-potential inversion schemes…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-20 Markus Penz , Michael F. Herbst , Trygve Helgaker , Andre Laestadius

In this paper, we first study nonsmooth steepest descent method for nonsmooth functions defined on Hilbert space and establish the corresponding algorithm by proximal subgradients. Then, we use this algorithm to find stationary points for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Zhou Wei , Qing Hai He

We investigate the existence of strong solutions to a general class of doubly multivalued and nonlinear evolution equations of second order. The multivalued operators are generated by the subdifferential of nonsmooth potentials that live in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Aras Bacho

We develop a theory which allows making qualitative conclusions about the dynamics of both monotone and non-monotone Moreau sweeping processes. Specifically, we first prove that any sweeping processes with almost periodic monotone…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Mikhail Kamenskii , Oleg Makarenkov , Lakmi Niwanthi , Paul Raynaud de Fitte

In a Hilbert setting we aim to study a second order in time differential equation, combining viscous and Hessian-driven damping, containing a time scaling parameter function and a Tikhonov regularization term. The dynamical system is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Robert Ernö Csetnek , Mikhail A. Karapetyants

In this paper, we study the well-posedness of state-dependent and state-independent sweeping processes driven by prox-regular sets and perturbed by a history-dependent operator. Our approach, based on an enhanced version of Gronwall's lemma…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Matías Godoy , Manuel Torres-Valdebenito , Emilio Vilches

We generalize a Maximum Principle for optimal control problems involving sweeping systems previously derived in ``Necessary conditions for optimal control problems with sweeping systems and end point constraints'', by de Pinho, Ferreira and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Maria do Rosario de Pinho , Maria Margarida A. Ferreira , Georgi Smirnov

In this paper, we introduce for the first time a class of state-dependent maximal monotone differential inclusions. Then the existence and uniqueness of solutions are obtained by using an implicit discretization scheme and a kind of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Ba Khiet Le

The paper concerns optimal control of discontinuous differential inclusions of the normal cone type governed by a generalized version of the Moreau sweeping process with control functions acting in both nonconvex moving sets and additive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Tan H. Cao , B. S. Mordukhovich

We investigate the Moreau-Yosida regularization and the associated proximal map in the context of discrete gradient flow for the 2-Wasserstein metric. Our main results are a stepwise contraction property for the proximal map and an "above…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-17 Eric A. Carlen , Katy Craig

We establish existence of steepest descent curves emanating from almost every point of a regular locally Lipschitz quasiconvex functions, where regularity means that the sweeping process flow induced by the sublevel sets is reversible. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Aris Daniilidis , David Salas

We establish strong well-posedness for a class of degenerate SDEs of kinetic type with autonomous diffusion driven by a symmetric $\alpha$-stable process under H\"older regularity conditions for the drift term. We partially recover the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Giacomo Lucertini , Stéphane Menozzi , Stefano Pagliarani

We describe inexact proximal Newton-like methods for solving degenerate regularized optimization problems and for the broader problem of finding a zero of a generalized equation that is the sum of a continuous map and a maximal monotone…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Ching-pei Lee , Stephen J. Wright

In this article, we study the problem of sampling from distributions whose densities are not necessarily smooth nor logconcave. We propose a simple Langevin-based algorithm that does not rely on popular but computationally challenging…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Tim Johnston , Iosif Lytras , Nikolaos Makras , Sotirios Sabanis

A controlled sweeping process with prox-regular set, $W^{1,2}$-controls, and separable endpoints constraints is considered in this paper. Existence of optimal solutions is established and local optimality conditions are derived via strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-12 Chadi Nour , Vera Zeidan

In this work, we introduce the notion of warped Yosida regularization and study the asymptotic behavior of the orbit of dynamical systems generated by warped Yosida regularization, which includes Douglas-Rachford dynamical system. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Pankaj Gautam , Vellaichamy Vetrivel