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A growing body of work in game theory extends the traditional Stackelberg game to settings with one leader and multiple followers who play a Nash equilibrium. Standard approaches for computing equilibria in these games reformulate the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Kai Wang , Lily Xu , Andrew Perrault , Michael K. Reiter , Milind Tambe

In this paper, we study the null controllability for parabolic SPDEs involving both the state and the gradient of the state. To start with, an improved global Carleman estimate for linear forward (resp. backward) parabolic SPDEs with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Lei Zhang , Fan Xu , Bin Liu

It is shown that a switching control involving a finite number of Dirac delta actuators is able to steer the state of a general class of nonautonomous parabolic equations to zero as time increases to infinity. The strategy is based on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Behzad Azmi , Karl Kunisch , Sérgio S. Rodrigues

In this paper, we discuss the approximate controllability for control systems governed by stochastic evolution hemivariational inequalities in Hilbert spaces. The interest in studying this type of equation comes from its application in some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Bholanath Kumbhakar , Deeksha , Dwijendra Narain Pandey

This paper proposes a novel approach for locally stable convergence to Nash equilibrium in duopoly noncooperative games based on a distributed event-triggered control scheme. The proposed approach employs extremum seeking, with sinusoidal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Victor Hugo Pereira Rodrigues , Tiago Roux Oliveira , Miroslav Krstić , Tamer Başar

We design a distributed algorithm for learning Nash equilibria over time-varying communication networks in a partial-decision information scenario, where each agent can access its own cost function and local feasible set, but can only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Mattia Bianchi , Sergio Grammatico

The nested Extremum Seeking (nES) algorithm is a model-free optimization method that has been shown to converge to a neighborhood of a Nash equilibrium. In this work, we demonstrate that the same nES dynamics can instead be made to converge…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Brad Ratto , Alan Williams , Miroslav Krstić , Tamer Başar , Alexander Scheinker

We introduce a generic numerical schemes for fully nonlinear parabolic PDEs on the full domain, where the nonlinearity is convex on the Hessian of the solution. The main idea behind this paper is reduction of a fully nonlinear problem to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Hung Duong , Arash Fahim

We establish a local null controllability result for following the nonlinear parabolic equation: $$u_t-\left(b\left(x,\int_0^1u \ \right)u_x \right)_x+f(t,x,u)=h\chi_\omega,\ (t,x)\in (0,T)\times (0,1) $$ where $b(x,r)=\ell(r)a(x)$ is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Reginaldo Demarque , Juan Límaco , Luiz Viana

In this paper, we consider a class of infinitely degenerate partial differential systems to obtain the Nash equilibria in the mean field games. The degeneracy in the diffusion and the Hamiltonian may be different. This feature brings…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Yiming Jiang , Jingchuang Ren , Yawei Wei , Jie Xue

Given a linear control system in a Hilbert space with a bounded control operator, we establish a characterization of exponential stabilizability in terms of an observability inequality. Such dual characterizations are well known for exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Emmanuel Trélat , Gengsheng Wang , Yashan Xu

Disjointly constrained multilinear programming concerns the problem of maximizing a multilinear function on the product of finitely many disjoint polyhedra. While maximizing a linear function on a polytope (linear programming) is known to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-14 Kai Kellner

In this paper, we are concerned with the controllability of a chemotaxis system of parabolic-elliptic type. By linearizing the nonlinear system into two separated linear equations to bypass the obstacle caused by the nonlinear drift term,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-23 Bao-Zhu Guo , Liang Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to present a universal approach to the study of controllability/observability problems for infinite dimensional systems governed by some stochastic/deterministic partial differential equations. The crucial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-03-31 Xu Zhang

This article addresses control problems for semilinear impulsive neutral integro-differential equations with memory in a Banach space. It investigates the approximate controllability of linear and semilinear systems and proves the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Garima Gupta , Jaydev Dabas

This paper introduces a new method to achieve stable convergence to Nash equilibrium in duopoly noncooperative games. Inspired by the recent fixed-time Nash Equilibrium seeking (NES) as well as prescribed-time extremum seeking (ES) and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Victor Hugo Pereira Rodrigues , Tiago Roux Oliveira , Miroslav Krstić , Tamer Başar

We are concerned about the null controllability of a linear degenerate parabolic equation with one delay parameter on the line $(0,1)$, where the control force is exerted on a subdomain of $(0,1)$ or on the boundary. For that we show how…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-07 E. L. Mustapha Ait Benhassi , Mohamed Fadili , Lahcen Maniar

In this paper, we are concerned with the internal control of a class of one-dimensional nonlinear parabolic systems with nonlocal and weakly degenerate diffusion coefficients. Our main theorem establishes a local null controllability result…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-11 R. Demarque , J. Límaco , L. Viana

This paper is concerned with the optimal control problem governed by a linear parabolic equation and subjected to box constraints on control variables. This type of problem has important applications in heating and cooling systems. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Hailing Wang , Changjun Yu , Di Wu

This paper investigates the global controllability properties of the Cahn--Hilliard equation posed on the $d$-dimensional flat torus $\mathbb{T}^d$. We first establish small-time global approximate controllability of the system by means of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Víctor Hernández-Santamaría , Subrata Majumdar , Luz de Teresa