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We study local controllability and optimal control problems for invertible discrete-time control systems. We present second order necessary conditions for optimality and sufficient conditions for local controllability. The conditions are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-30 M. Barbero-Liñán , B. Jakubczyk

In this paper, we consider control constrained $L^2-$Dirichlet boundary control of a convection-diffusion equation on a two dimensional convex polygonal domain. We discretize the control problem based on the local discontinuous Galerkin…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Peter Benner , Michael Hinze , Hamdullah Yücel

In this work, we present a second-order numerical scheme to address the solution of optimal control problems constrained by the evolution of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations arising from socio-economic dynamics. In order to design an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Giacomo Albi , Elisa Calzola

We discuss the mathematical modeling and numerical discretization of transport problems on one-dimensional networks. Suitable coupling conditions are derived that guarantee conservation of mass across network junctions and dissipation of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Herbert Egger , Nora Philippi

This paper is devoted to a study of infinite horizon optimal control problems with time discounting and time averaging criteria in discrete time. It is known that these problems are related to certain infinite-dimensional linear programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Ilya Shvartsman

In this paper we study optimal control problems with either fractional or regional fractional $p$-Laplace equation, of order $s$ and $p\in [2,\infty)$, as constraints over a bounded open set with Lipschitz continuous boundary. The control,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Harbir Antil , Mahamadi Warma

In this article, we are concerned about the velocity tracking optimal control problem for 3D critical convective Brinkman-Forchheimer equations defined on a simply connected bounded domain $\mathbb{D}\subset\mathbb{R}^3$ with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Kush Kinra , Fernanda Cipriano

We investigate local optimality conditions of first and second order for integer optimal control problems with total variation regularization via a finite-dimensional switching point problem. We show the equivalence of local optimality for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Jonas Marko , Gerd Wachsmuth

In this work, we investigate an indirect approach for the numerical solution of optimal control problems via neural networks. A customized neural network is constructed, where optimal state, co-state and control trajectories are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Mominul Rubel , Gabriel Nicolosi

This work focuses on numerical solutions of optimal control problems. A time discretization error representation is derived for the approximation of the associated value function. It concerns Symplectic Euler solutions of the Hamiltonian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Jesper Karlsson , Stig Larsson , Mattias Sandberg , Anders Szepessy , Raùl Tempone

We consider the control of McKean-Vlasov dynamics whose coefficients have mean field interactions in the state and control. We show that for a class of linear-convex mean field control problems, the unique optimal open-loop control admits…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Christoph Reisinger , Wolfgang Stockinger , Yufei Zhang

We establish an optimal strong convergence rate of a fully discrete numerical scheme for second order parabolic stochastic partial differential equations with monotone drifts, including the stochastic Allen-Cahn equation, driven by an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-21 Zhihui Liu , Zhonghua Qiao

The energy dissipation law and maximum bound principle are significant characteristics of the Allen-Chan equation. To preserve discrete counterpart of these properties, the linear part of the target system is usually discretized implicitly,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-01 Xuelong Gu , Yushun Wang , Wenjun Cai

As a main step in the numerical solution of control problems in continuous time, the controlled process is approximated by sequences of controlled Markov chains, thus discretising time and space. A new feature in this context is to allow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Markus Fischer , Markus Reiss

This paper first presents necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of discrete time, mean-field, stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problems. Then, by introducing several sequences of bounded linear operators, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-25 Robert. J Elliott , Xun Li , Yuan-Hua Ni

We formulate and analyse an optimal control problem for the coagulation-fragmentation equation, where a scalar, time-dependent control modulates the coagulation rate by multiplying the coagulation kernel. The objective functional consists…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Enrico Sartor

Optimal control under uncertainty is a prevailing challenge for many reasons. One of the critical difficulties lies in producing tractable solutions for the underlying stochastic optimization problem. We show how advanced approximate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Joe Watson , Hany Abdulsamad , Rolf Findeisen , Jan Peters

In this paper, we study optimal control problems of semilinear elliptic and parabolic equations. A tracking cost functional, quadratic in the control and state variables, is considered. No control constraints are imposed. We prove that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Eduardo Casas , Daniel Wachsmuth

In this paper, we propose a Galerkin finite element method for the elliptic optimal control problem governed by the Riesz space-fractional PDEs on 2D domains with control variable being discretized by variational discretization technique.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Xiaogang Zhu

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