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The purpose of this work is the formulation of optimality conditions for phase-field optimal control problems. The forward problem is first stated as an abstract nonlinear optimization problem, and then the necessary optimality conditions…
The aim of this article is to prove a quantitative inequality for the first eigenvalue of a Schr\"odinger operator in the ball. More precisely, we optimize the first eigenvalue $\lambda(V)$ of the operator $\mathcal L_v:=-\Delta-V$ with…
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…
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…
We consider the optimal control of singular nonlinear partial differential equation which is the distributional formulation of the multiphase Stefan type free boundary problem for the general second order parabolic equation. Boundary heat…
This paper studies the differentiability of the value function of switched linear systems under arbitrary switching and controlled switching, referred to as worst-case and optimal value functions respectively. First, we show that the value…
We consider optimal control problems for partial differential equations where the controls take binary values but vary over the time horizon, they can thus be seen as dynamic switches. The switching patterns may be subject to combinatorial…
This work aims to control the dynamics of certain non-Newtonian fluids in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2,3$ perturbed by a multiplicative Wiener noise, the control acts as a predictable distributed random force, and the goal is to…
In this article, we investigate some of the fine properties of the value function associated to an optimal control problem in the Wasserstein space of probability measures. Building on new interpolation and linearisation formulas for…
This work is concerned with the optimal control problems governed by a 1D wave equation with variable coefficients and the control spaces $\mathcal M_T$ of either measure-valued functions $L_{w^*}^2(I,\mathcal M(\Omega))$ or vector measures…
This paper presents a unified derivation of transversality conditions in optimal control problems using exact penalty functions. The key regularity condition is that the origin is uniformly separated from the subdifferential of the penalty…
We study the problem of optimizing the eigenvalues of the Dirichlet Laplace operator under perimeter constraint. We prove that optimal sets are analytic outside a closed singular set of dimension at most $d-8$ by writing a general…
We study the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for undiscounted exit time control problems with general nonnegative Lagrangians using the dynamic programming approach. We prove theorems characterizing the value function as the unique…
In this paper we study the optimal control of an initial-boundary value problem for the classical nonviscous Cahn-Hilliard system with zero Neumann boundary conditions. Phase field systems of this type govern the evolution of diffusive…
In this paper, we investigate a sparse optimal control of continuous-time stochastic systems. We adopt the dynamic programming approach and analyze the optimal control via the value function. Due to the non-smoothness of the $L^0$ cost…
Motivated by various applications, this article develops the notion of boundary control for Maxwell's equations in the frequency domain. Surface curl is shown to be the appropriate regularization in order for the optimal control problem to…
An abstract framework guaranteeing the local continuous differentiability of the value function associated with optimal stabilization problems subject to abstract semilinear parabolic equations subject to a norm constraint on the controls…
A theoretical framework and numerical techniques to solve optimal control problems with a spatial trace term in the terminal cost and governed by regularized nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws are provided. Depending on the spatial…
In this study, we propose a varying terminal time structure for the optimal control problem under state constraints, in which the terminal time follows the varying of the control via the constrained condition. Focusing on this new optimal…
This article concerns a class of time-optimal state constrained control problems with dynamics defined by an ordinary differential equation involving a three-dimensional steady flow vector field. The problem is solved via an indirect method…