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This paper develops a novel approach to necessary optimality conditions for constrained variational problems defined in generally incomplete subspaces of absolutely continuous functions. Our approach involves reducing a variational problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Ashkan Mohammadi , Boris Mordukhovich

We consider obstacle problems for the Willmore functional in the class of graphs of functions and surfaces of revolution with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We prove the existence of minimisers of the obstacle problems under the assumption…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Hans-Christoph Grunau , Shinya Okabe

This work is concerned with an optimal control problem on a Riemannian manifold, for which two typical cases are considered. The first case is when the endpoint is free. For this case, the control set is assumed to be a separable metric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-09 Qing Cui , Li Deng , Xu Zhang

In general, standard necessary optimality conditions cannot be formulated in a straightforward manner for semi-smooth shape optimization problems. In this paper, we consider shape optimization problems constrained by variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Daniel Luft , Volker H. Schulz , Kathrin Welker

We study an optimal control problem associated to the conformal Laplacian obstacle problem on closed n-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with n >2. When the Yamabe invariant of the Riemannian manifold is positive, we show that the optimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-16 Cheikh Birahim Ndiaye

In this paper, we are concerned with optimal control problems evolved on Riemannian manifolds, where the initial and final states satisfy some inequality and equality type constraints, and the control set is a separable metric space. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Li Deng , Xu Zhang

This paper deals with the Lipschitz regularity of minimizers for a class of variational obstacle problems with possible occurance of the Lavrentiev phenomenon. In order to overcome this problem, the availment of the notions of relaxed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Giacomo Bertazzoni , Samuele Riccò

Let (N,g) be a nilpotent Lie group endowed with an invariant geometric structure (cf. symplectic, complex, hypercomplex or any of their `almost' versions). We define a left invariant Riemannian metric on N compatible with g to be minimal,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jorge Lauret

Optimization with orthogonality constraints frequently arises in various fields such as machine learning. Riemannian optimization offers a powerful framework for solving these problems by equipping the constraint set with a Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Andi Han , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Akiko Takeda

We propose an extremely versatile approach to address a large family of matrix nearness problems, possibly with additional linear constraints. Our method is based on splitting a matrix nearness problem into two nested optimization problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Miryam Gnazzo , Vanni Noferini , Lauri Nyman , Federico Poloni

In this manuscript, we consider a control system governed by a general ordinary differential equation on a Riemannian manifold, with its endpoints satisfying some inequalities and equalities, and its control constrained to a closed convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Li Deng

In this work, we consider optimality conditions of an optimal control problem governed by an obstacle problem. Here, we focus on introducing a, matrix valued, control variable as the coefficients of the obstacle problem. As it is well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Nicolai Simon , Winnifried Wollner

Within this chapter, we discuss control in the coefficients of an obstacle problem. Utilizing tools from H-convergence, we show existence of optimal solutions. First order necessary optimality conditions are obtained after deriving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Andreas Hehl , Denis Khimin , Ira Neitzel , Nicolai Simon , Thomas Wick , Winnifried Wollner

We consider optimization problems on manifolds with equality and inequality constraints. A large body of work treats constrained optimization in Euclidean spaces. In this work, we consider extensions of existing algorithms from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-26 Changshuo Liu , Nicolas Boumal

Smooth, non-convex optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds occur in machine learning as a result of orthonormality, rank or positivity constraints. First- and second-order necessary optimality conditions state that the Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Chris Criscitiello , Nicolas Boumal

Quasi-variational inequalities (QVIs) of obstacle type in many cases have multiple solutions that can be ordered. We study a multitude of properties of the operator mapping the source term to the minimal or maximal solution of such QVIs. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Amal Alphonse , Michael Hintermüller , Carlos N. Rautenberg , Gerd Wachsmuth

In this paper, we consider optimization problems over closed embedded submanifolds of $\mathbb{R}^n$, which are defined by the constraints $c(x) = 0$. We propose a class of constraint dissolving approaches for these Riemannian optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Nachuan Xiao , Xin Liu , Kim-Chuan Toh

The matrix completion problem consists of finding or approximating a low-rank matrix based on a few samples of this matrix. We propose a new algorithm for matrix completion that minimizes the least-square distance on the sampling set over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-19 Bart Vandereycken

In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems governed by semilinear elliptic variational inequalities involving constraints on the state, and more precisely the obstacle problem. Since we adopt a numerical point of view, we first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-10 El Hassene Osmani , Mounir Haddou , Naceurdine Bensalem

Riemannian cubics in tension are critical points of the linear combination of two objective functionals, namely the squared norms of the velocity and acceleration of a curve on a Riemannian manifold. We view this variational problem of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-28 C. Yalçın Kaya , J. Lyle Noakes , Erchuan Zhang