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We generalize various symplectic reduction techniques to the context of the optimal momentum map. Our approach allows the construction of symplectic point and orbit reduced spaces purely within the Poisson category under hypotheses that do…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Juan-Pablo Ortega

Noether's theorem connects symmetries to invariants in continuous systems, however its extension to discrete systems has remained elusive. Recognizing the lowest-order finite difference as the foundation of local continuity, a viable method…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-04 Samuel Richard Totorica

We extend the Marsden-Weinstein-Meyer symplectic reduction theorem to the setting of multisymplectic manifolds. In this context, we investigate the dependence of the reduced space on the reduction parameters. With respect to a distinguished…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-14 Casey Blacker

The investigation of symmetries of b-symplectic manifolds and folded-symplectic manifolds is well-understood when the group under consideration is a torus (see, for instance, [GMPS,GLPR, GMW18a] for b-symplectic manifolds and [CGP, CM] for…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Anastasia Matveeva , Eva Miranda

Motivated by the ubiquity of control-affine systems in optimal control theory, we investigate the geometry of point-affine control systems with metric structures in dimensions two and three. We compute local isometric invariants for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-18 Jeanne N. Clelland , Christopher G. Moseley , George R. Wilkens

We analyze an algorithm to numerically solve the mean-field optimal control problems by approximating the optimal feedback controls using neural networks with problem specific architectures. We approximate the model by an $N$-particle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 H. Mete Soner , Josef Teichmann , Qinxin Yan

We prove a Noether-type symmetry theorem for invariant optimal control problems with unrestricted controls. The result establishes weak conservation laws along all the minimizers of the problems, including those minimizers which do not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-03-04 Delfim F. M. Torres

We derive the Lie and the Noether conditions for the equations of motion of a dynamical system in a $n-$dimensional Riemannian space. We solve these conditions in the sense that we express the symmetry generating vectors in terms of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Michael Tsamparlis

We provide a geometric extension of the generalized Noether theorem for scaling symmetries recently presented in \cite{zhang2020generalized}. Our version of the generalized Noether theorem has several positive features: it is constructed in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Alessandro Bravetti , Angel Garcia-Chung

We consider linear model reduction in both the control and state variables for unconstrained linear-quadratic optimal control problems subject to time-varying parabolic PDEs. The first-order optimality condition for a state-space reduced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Michael Kartmann , Stefan Volkwein

We obtain a generalization of Noether's invariance principle for optimal control problems with equality and inequality state-input constraints. The result relates the invariance properties of the problems with the existence of conserved…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Delfim F. M. Torres

A geometric framework, called multicontact geometry, has recently been developed to study action-dependent field theories. In this work, we use this framework to analyze symmetries in action-dependent Lagrangian and Hamiltonian field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy , Bartosz M. Zawora

In this work, we extend Aubry-Mather theory to the case of control systems with nonholonomic constraints. In this framework, we consider an optimal control problem where admissible trajectories are solutions of a control-affine equation.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Piermarco Cannarsa , Cristian Mendico

In this paper we consider an optimal control problem for the coupled system of a nonlinear monotone Dirichlet problem with anisotropic p-Laplacian and matrix-valued nonsmooth controls in its coefficients and a nonlinear equation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-25 T. Durante , O. P. Kupenko , R. Manzo

We review the {\it Noether Symmetry Approach} as a geometric criterion to select theories of gravity. Specifically, we deal with Noether Symmetries to solve the field equations of given gravity theories. The method allows to find out exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-25 Konstantinos F. Dialektopoulos , Salvatore Capozziello

Noether's theorem on the equivalence of symmetry and conservation laws has applications to geometric problems on symmetric spaces. We remind the reader of the theorem and give an application to a variational problem on hyperbolic surfaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Karen Uhlenbeck

We consider left-invariant optimal control problems on connected Lie groups such that generic stabilizer of the coadjoint action is connected and has dimension not more than 1. We introduce a construction for symmetries of the exponential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-02 A. V. Podobryaev

In this paper, we study a class of fractional optimal control problems. A necessary condition for the existence of an optimal control is provided in the literature. It is commonly given as the existence of a solution of a fractional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-08 Loïc Bourdin

We address the problem of symmetry reduction of optimal control problems under the action of a finite group from a measure relaxation viewpoint. We propose a method based on the moment-SOS aka Lasserre hierarchy which allows one to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Nicolas Augier , Didier Henrion , Milan Korda , Victor Magron

Here an original idea is suggested to prove the existence of optimal control for some types of non- linear problems. The obtained results can be considered as individual existence theorems (in some sense).

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. A. Niftiyev