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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Daniel Wachsmuth

The aim of this work is to study, from an intrinsic and geometric point of view, second-order constrained variational problems on Lie algebroids, that is, optimization problems defined by a cost functional which depends on higher-order…

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This paper investigates a multidimensional non-homogeneous stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem featuring random coefficients and a terminal mean-field term in the cost functional, enabling its direct application to…

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This paper investigates a symmetric dual-wind discontinuous Galerkin (DWDG) method for solving an elliptic optimal control problem with control constraints. The governing constraint is an elliptic partial differential equation (PDE), which…

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This work is concerned with the necessary conditions of optimality for a minimal time control problem $(P)$ for the linearized Navier-Stokes periodic flow in a 2D-channel, subject to a boundary input which acts on the transversal component…

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This article treats optimal sparse control problems with multiple constraints defined at intermediate points of the time domain. For such problems with intermediate constraints, we first establish a new Pontryagin maximum principle that…

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We consider the inverse multiphase Stefan problem with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition on a bounded Lipschitz domain, where the density of the heat source is unknown in addition to the temperature and the phase transition…

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We establish the existence of both optimal relaxed controls and strict optimal controls for systems driven by Reflected Stochastic Differential Equations RSDEs. Our approach is based on weak convergence techniques for the associated RSDEs…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Ayoub Laayoun , Badr Missaoui

We study a stochastic optimal control problem with the state constrained to a smooth, compact domain. The control influences both the drift and a possibly degenerate, control-dependent dispersion matrix, leading to a fully nonlinear,…

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We propose two algorithms for the solution of the optimal control of ergodic McKean-Vlasov dynamics. Both algorithms are based on approximations of the theoretical solutions by neural networks, the latter being characterized by their…

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This article develops a global existence result for the solution of an optimal control problem associated to the Ginzburg-Landau system. This main result is based on standard tools of analysis and functional analysis, such as the Friedrichs…

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We formulate the immersed-boundary method (IBM) as an inverse problem. A control variable is introduced on the boundary of a larger domain that encompasses the target domain. The optimal control is the one that minimizes the mismatch…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Jianfeng Yan , Jason Edward Hicken

This paper investigates the optimal control of a bilinear damped wave equation over an infinite time horizon. We establish the well-posedness of the controlled system and derive uniform energy estimates. The existence of optimal controls is…

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