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We investigate $C^1$ finite element methods for one dimensional elliptic distributed optimal control problems with pointwise constraints on the derivative of the state formulated as fourth order variational inequalities for the state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-29 Susanne C. Brenner , Li-Yeng Sung , Winnifried Wollner

We present a systematic introduction to first-order optimality conditions for mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints (MPECs), emphasizing the limitations of classical nonlinear programming techniques. The goal is twofold. First,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Louis Shuo Wang

It has been shown recently that optimal control problems with the dynamical constraint given by a second order system admit a regular Lagrangian formulation. This implies that the optimality conditions can be obtained in a new form based on…

We prove optimality conditions for different variational functionals containing left and right Caputo fractional derivatives. A sufficient condition of minimization under an appropriate convexity assumption is given. An Euler-Lagrange…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-10-06 Ricardo Almeida , Delfim F. M. Torres

In this paper we study the right differentiability of a parametric infimum function over a parametric set defined by equality constraints. We present a new theorem with sufficient conditions for the right differentiability with respect to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Kevin Sturm

The paper introduces several new concepts for solving nonconvex or nonsmooth optimization problems, including convertible nonconvex function, exact convertible nonconvex function and differentiable convertible nonconvex function. It is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Min Jiang , Rui Shen , Zhiqing Meng , Chuangyin Dang

Optimal approximation and optimal interpolation problems on the classes of periodic functions that are determined by restrictions on several higher derivatives of the functions are solved.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Vladislav F. Babenko , Oleg V. Kovalenko

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the weak efficient solutions, the efficient solutions, and the isolated efficient solutions of a given vector optimization problem with finitely many convex objective functions and infinitely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-11 Miguel A. Goberna , Nader Kanzi

The paper considers a multidimensional problem of optimal recovery of an operator whose action is represented by multiplying the original function by a weight function of a special type, based on inaccurately specified information about the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-15 K. Yu. Osipenko

This paper deals with the optimization of Bolza problem with a system of convex and nonconvex, discrete and differential state variable inequality constraints of second order by deriving necessary and sufficient conditions for optimality.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Elimhan N. Mahmudov , S. Demir Saglam

For an infinite-horizon continuous-time optimal stopping problem under non-exponential discounting, we look for an optimal equilibrium, which generates larger values than any other equilibrium does on the entire state space. When the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Yu-Jui Huang , Zhou Zhou

In this paper convex optimization techniques are employed for convex optimization problems in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces. A first order optimality condition is given. Let $f : \mathbb{R}^{n}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ and let $x\in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Benard Okelo

In this paper, we consider the nonlinear constrained optimization problem (NCP) with constraint set $\{x \in \mathcal{X}: c(x) = 0\}$, where $\mathcal{X}$ is a closed convex subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$. We propose an exact penalty approach,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Nachuan Xiao , Tianyun Tang , Shiwei Wang , Kim-Chuan Toh

We investigate exact semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations for the problem of minimizing a nonconvex quadratic objective function over a feasible region defined by both finitely and infinitely many nonconvex quadratic inequality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Naohiko Arima , Sunyoung Kim , Masakazu Kojima

We study a new penalty reformulation of constrained convex optimization based on the softplus penalty function. We develop novel and tight upper bounds on the objective value gap and the violation of constraints for the solutions to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Meng Li , Paul Grigas , Alper Atamturk

We prove a sufficient optimality condition for non-linear optimal control problems with delays in both state and control variables. Our result requires the verification of a Hamilton-Jacobi partial differential equation and is obtained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Ana P. Lemos-Paiao , Cristiana J. Silva , Delfim F. M. Torres

Learning processes are useful methodologies able to improve knowledge of real phenomena. These are often dependent on hyperparameters, variables set before the training process and regulating the learning procedure. Hyperparameters…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Flavia Esposito , Laura Selicato , Caterina Sportelli

Lasserre's hierarchy is a sequence of semidefinite relaxations for solving polynomial optimization problems globally. This paper studies the relationship between optimality conditions in nonlinear programming theory and finite convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-16 Jiawang Nie

Here, necessary optimal condition for Optimistic Bilevel programming problem is obtained in Asplund spaces. Also we have got necessary optimal conditions in finite dimensional spaces, by assuming differentiability on the given functions.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-11 Suvendu Pattanaik

We establish necessary optimality conditions for variational problems with a Lagrangian depending on a combined Caputo derivative of variable fractional order. The endpoint of the integral is free, and thus transversality conditions are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-30 Dina Tavares , Ricardo Almeida , Delfim F. M. Torres