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We formulate a class of nonlinear {evolution} partial differential equations (PDEs) as linear optimization problems on moments of positive measures supported on infinite-dimensional vector spaces. Using sums of squares (SOS) representations…
In this article we propose a new, explicit and easily implementable numerical method for approximating a class of semilinear stochastic evolution equations with non-globally Lipschitz continuous nonlinearities. We establish strong…
We study a class of polynomial optimization problems with a robust polynomial matrix inequality (PMI) constraint where the uncertainty set itself is defined also by a PMI. These can be viewed as matrix generalizations of semi-infinite…
The behaviour of the moment-sums-of-squares (moment-SOS) hierarchy for polynomial optimal control problems on compact sets has been explored to a large extent. Our contribution focuses on the case of non-compact control sets. We describe a…
We consider the linear conic optimization problem with the cone of nonnegative polynomials. Its dual optimization problem is the generalized moment problem. Moment-SOS relaxations are powerful for solving them. This paper studies finite…
Lasserre's moment-SOS hierarchy consists of approximating instances of the generalized moment problem (GMP) with moment relaxations and sums-of-squares (SOS) strenghtenings that boil down to convex semidefinite programming (SDP) problems.…
The Douglas--Rachford and Peaceman--Rachford splitting methods are common choices for temporal discretizations of evolution equations. In this paper we combine these methods with spatial discretizations fulfilling some easily verifiable…
We prove that the mild solution to a semilinear stochastic evolution equation on a Hilbert space, driven by either a square integrable martingale or a Poisson random measure, is (jointly) continuous, in a suitable topology, with respect to…
This paper considers polynomial optimization with unbounded sets. We give a homogenization formulation and propose a hierarchy of Moment-SOS relaxations to solve it. Under the assumptions that the feasible set is closed at infinity and the…
Quantum speed-ups for dynamical simulation usually demand unitary time-evolution, whereas the large ODE/PDE systems encountered in realistic physical models are generically non-unitary. We present a universal moment-fulfilling dilation that…
We consider polynomial optimization problems (POP) on a semialgebraic set contained in the nonnegative orthant (every POP on a compact set can be put in this format by a simple translation of the origin). Such a POP can be converted to an…
This paper studies distributionally robust optimization (DRO) with polynomial robust constraints. We give a Moment-SOS relaxation approach to solve the DRO. This reduces to solving linear conic optimization with semidefinite constraints.…
We study semi-linear evolutionary problems where the linear part is the generator of a positive $C_0$-semigroup. The non-linear part is assumed to be quasi-increasing. Given an initial value in between a sub- and a super-solution of the…
This paper studies the matrix Moment-SOS hierarchy for solving polynomial matrix optimization. Our first result is to show the finite convergence of this hierarchy, if the nondegeneracy condition, strict complementarity condition and second…
We discuss the issue of maximal regularity for evolutionary equations with non-autonomous coefficients. Here evolutionary equations are abstract partial-differential algebraic equations considered in Hilbert spaces. The catch is to consider…
The problem of finding roots or solutions of a nonlinear partial differential equation may be formulated as the problem of minimizing a sum of squared residuals. One then defines an evolution equation so that in the asymptotic limit a…
Nonconservative evolution problems describe irreversible processes and dissipative effects in a broad variety of phenomena. Such problems are often characterised by a conservative part, which can be modelled as a Hamiltonian term, and a…
The moment sum of squares (moment-SOS) hierarchy produces sequences of upper and lower bounds on functionals of the exit time solution of a polynomial stochastic differential equation with polynomial constraints, at the price of solving…
We introduce a sublevel Moment-SOS hierarchy where each SDP relaxation can be viewed as an intermediate (or interpolation) between the d-th and (d+1)-th order SDP relaxations of the Moment-SOS hierarchy (dense or sparse version). With the…
Consider the diffusive HJ eq. with Dirichlet conditions, which arises in stochastic control as well as in KPZ type models of surface growth. It is known that, for $p>2$ and suitably large, smooth initial data, the sol. undergoes finite time…