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We present a new proof of the turnpike property for nonlinear optimal control problems, when the running target is a steady control-state pair of the underlying system. Our strategy combines the construction of quasi-turnpike controls via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Borjan Geshkovski , Dario Pighin , Enrique Zuazua

The concept of turnpike connects the solution of long but finite time horizon optimal control problems with steady state optimal controls. A key ingredient of the analysis of the turnpike is the linear quadratic regulator problem and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Jan Heiland , Enrique Zuazua

We study the local stability properties of solutions to ergodic and discounted mean field games systems, as the time horizon $T \to +\infty$, around stationary equilibria, when the Hamiltonian is quadratic. We replace the usual monotonicity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Marco Cirant , Nicolò De Bernardi

In this paper, we introduce turnpike arguments in the context of optimal state estimation. In particular, we show that the optimal solution of the state estimation problem involving all available past data serves as turnpike for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Julian D. Schiller , Lars Grüne , Matthias A. Müller

We investigate convergence and turnpike properties for linear-quadratic mean field control problems with common noise. Within a unified framework, we analyze a finite-horizon social optimization problem, its mean field control limit, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Erhan Bayraktar , Jiamin Jian

This article aims at quantifying the long time behavior of solutions of mean field PDE systems arising in the theory of Mean Field Games and McKean-Vlasov control. Our main contribution is to show well-posedness of the ergodic problem and…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Alekos Cecchin , Giovanni Conforti , Alain Durmus , Katharina Eichinger

Optimal control problems with symmetries often admit a non stationary turnpike property called trim turnpike, which characterizes the convergence of optimal solutions to certain symmetry induced trajectories called trim primitives. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Sofya Maslovskaya , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Boris Wembe

In this manuscript, we study the turnpike property in stochastic discrete-time optimal control problems for interacting agents. Extending previous deterministic results, we show that the turnpike effect persists in the presence of noise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Fabio Cassini , Chiara Segala

This paper focuses on the role of a government of a large population of interacting agents as a mean field optimal control problem derived from deterministic finite agent dynamics. The control problems are constrained by a PDE of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Massimo Fornasier , Stefano Lisini , Carlo Orrieri , Giuseppe Savaré

We consider a constrained eigenvalue optimization problem that arises in an important nonlinear dynamical model for mRNA translation in the cell. We prove that the ordered list of optimal parameters admits a turnpike property, namely, it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Adam Kaminer , Thomas Kriecherbauer , Lars Grüne , Michael Margaliot

Classical turnpikes correspond to optimal steady states which are attractors of optimal control problems. In this paper, motivated by mechanical systems with symmetries, we generalize this concept to manifold turnpikes. Specifically, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-08 Timm Faulwasser , Kathrin Flaßkamp , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann

This paper presents a simulation study on turnpike phenomena in stochastic optimal control problems. We employ the framework of Polynomial Chaos Expansions (PCE) to investigate the presence of turnpikes in stochastic LQ problems. Our…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Ruchuan Ou , Michael Heinrich Baumann , Lars Grüne , Timm Faulwasser

Our main contribution in this article is the achievement of the turnpike property in its integral and exponential forms for parameter-dependent systems with averaged observations in the cost functional. Namely, under suitable assumptions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Martín Hernández , Martin Lazar , Sebastián Zamorano

We investigate pathwise turnpike behavior of discrete-time stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problems. Our analysis is based on a novel strict dissipativity notion for such problems, in which a stationary stochastic process…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Jonas Schießl , Ruchuan Ou , Timm Faulwasser , Michael Heinrich Baumann , Lars Grüne

We analyze the consequences that the so-called turnpike property has on the long-time behavior of the value function corresponding to a finite-dimensional linear-quadratic optimal control problem with general terminal cost and constrained…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Carlos Esteve , Hicham Kouhkouh , Dario Pighin , Enrique Zuazua

Motivated by mechanical systems with symmetries, we focus on optimal control problems possessing symmetries. Following recent works, which generalized the classical concept of static turnpike to manifold turnpike, we extend the exponential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Kathrin Flaßkamp , Sofya Maslovskaya , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Boris Wembe

This paper presents first results for near optimality in expectation of the closed-loop solutions for stochastic economic MPC. The approach relies on a recently developed turnpike property for stochastic optimal control problems at an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Jonas Schießl , Ruchuan Ou , Timm Faulwasser , Michael H. Baumann , Lars Grüne

We analyze some systems of partial differential equations arising in the theory of mean field type control with congestion effects. We look for weak solutions. Our main result is the existence and uniqueness of suitably defined weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Yves Achdou , Mathieu Lauriere

A mean-field selective optimal control problem of multipopulation dynamics via transient leadership is considered. The agents in the system are described by their spatial position and their probability of belonging to a certain population.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Giacomo Albi , Stefano Almi , Marco Morandotti , Francesco Solombrino

Motivated by singular limits for long-time optimal control problems, we investigate a class of parameter-dependent parabolic equations. First, we prove a turnpike result, uniform with respect to the parameters within a suitable regularity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Martin Hernandez , Enrique Zuazua