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This work establishes a general stochastic maximum principle for partially observed optimal control of semi-linear stochastic partial differential equations in a nonconvex control domain. The state evolves in a Hilbert space driven by a…

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We study an optimal control problem under uncertainty, where the target function is the solution of an elliptic partial differential equation with random coefficients, steered by a control function. The robust formulation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Philipp A. Guth , Vesa Kaarnioja , Frances Y. Kuo , Claudia Schillings , Ian H. Sloan

The article examines a linear-quadratic Neumann control problem that is governed by a non-coercive elliptic equation. Due to the non-self-adjoint nature of the linear control-to-state operator, it is necessary to independently study both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Thomas Apel , Mariano Mateos , Arnd Rösch

In this paper a priori error estimates are derived for full discretization (in space and time) of time-optimal control problems. Various convergence results for the optimal time and the control variable are proved under different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Lucas Bonifacius , Konstantin Pieper , Boris Vexler

We study an optimal control problem for the stochastic wave equation driven by affine multiplicative noise, formulated as a stochastic linear-quadratic (SLQ) problem. By applying a stochastic Pontryagin's maximum principle, we characterize…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Abhishek Chaudhary

In this article, an abstract framework for the error analysis of discontinuous Galerkin methods for control constrained optimal control problems is developed. The analysis establishes the best approximation result from a priori analysis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-05 Sudipto Chowdhury , Thirupathi Gudi , A. K. Nandakumaran

A general backward stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem is studied, in which both the state equation and the cost functional contain the nonhomogeneous terms. The main feature of the problem is that the weighting matrices in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Jingrui Sun , Jiaqiang Wen , Jie Xiong

A priori and a posteriori error analysis of $hp$ finite element method for elliptic control problem with Robin boundary condition and boundary observation are presented. are presented. Through the Cl\'ement-type approach and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Xingyuan Lin , Xiuxiu Lin , Xuesong Chen

Here and in a follow-on paper, we consider a simple control problem in which the underlying dynamics depend on a parameter $a$ that is unknown and must be learned. In this paper, we assume that $a$ is bounded, i.e., that $|a| \le…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Jacob Carruth , Maximilian F. Eggl , Charles Fefferman , Clarence W. Rowley

We reconsider the variational integration of optimal control problems for mechanical systems based on a direct discretization of the Lagrange-d'Alembert principle. This approach yields discrete dynamical constraints which by construction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-30 C. M. Campos , O. Junge , S. Ober-Blöbaum

We study a linear-quadratic optimal control problem involving a parabolic equation with fractional diffusion and Caputo fractional time derivative of orders $s \in (0,1)$ and $\gamma \in (0,1]$, respectively. The spatial fractional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-02 Harbir Antil , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

We consider the integral definition of the fractional Laplacian and analyze a linear-quadratic optimal control problem for the so-called fractional heat equation; control constraints are also considered. We derive existence and uniqueness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Christian Glusa , Enrique Otarola

We provide a posteriori error estimates for a discontinuous Galerkin scheme for the parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel system in 2 or 3 space dimensions. The estimates are conditional, in the sense that an a posteriori computable quantity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Jan Giesselmann , Kiwoong Kwon

We develop a Monte-Carlo based numerical method for solving discrete-time stochastic optimal control problems with inventory. These are optimal control problems in which the control affects only a deterministically evolving inventory…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-05 Alessandro Balata , Jan Palczewski

We discretize a risk-neutral optimal control problem governed by a linear elliptic partial differential equation with random inputs using a Monte Carlo sample-based approximation and a finite element discretization, yielding finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Johannes Milz

In this paper we study the approximation of a distributed optimal control problem for linear para\-bolic PDEs with model order reduction based on Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD-MOR). POD-MOR is a Galerkin approach where the basis…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Alessandro Alla , Carmen Graessle , Michael Hinze

We derive functional a posteriori error equalities and constant free two sided estimates for certain types of partial differential equations. The error is measured in a combined norm which takes into account both the primal and dual…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Immanuel Anjam , Dirk Pauly

This paper is concerned with the existence of optimal controls for backward stochastic partial differential equations with random coefficients, in which the control systems are represented in an abstract evolution form, i.e. backward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-07 Qingxin Meng , Yang Shen , Peng Shi

This paper focuses on finding approximate solutions to stochastic optimal control problems with control domains being not necessarily convex, where the state trajectory is subject to controlled stochastic differential equations. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Shaolin Ji , Rundong Xu

We consider a 1D periodic atomistic model, for which we formulate and analyze an adaptive variant of a quasicontinuum method. We establish a posteriori error estimates for the energy norm and for the energy, based on a posteriori residual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-15 Christoph Ortner , Hao Wang