A derivation formula for convex integral functionals defined on .
A deterministic affine-quadratic optimal control problem
A deterministic affine-quadratic optimal control problem is considered. Due to the nature of the problem, optimal controls exist under some very mild conditions. Further, it is shown that under some assumptions, the optimal control is unique which leads to the differentiability of the value function. Therefore, the value function satisfies the corresponding Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation in the classical sense, and the optimal control admits a state feedback representation. Under some additional...
A deterministic approach to the Skorokhod problem
A deterministic LQ tracking problem: parametrisation of the controller
The article discusses an optimal Linear Quadratic (LQ) deterministic control problem when the Youla–Kučera parametrisation of controller is used. We provide a computational procedure for computing a deterministic optimal single-input single-output (SISO) controller from any stabilising controller. This approach allows us to calculate a new optimal LQ deterministic controller from a previous one when the plant has changed. The design based on the Youla –Kučera parametrisation approach is compared...
A Differential Game Described by a Hyperbolic System
An antagonistic differential game of hyperbolic type with a separable linear vector pay-off function is considered. The main result is the description of all ε-Slater saddle points consisting of program strategies, program ε-Slater maximins and minimaxes for each ε ∈ R^N > for this game. To this purpose, the considered differential game is reduced to find the optimal program strategies of two multicriterial problems of hyperbolic type. The application...
A diffusion problem with gradient constraint and evolutive Dirichlet condition
A Direct proof for lower semicontinuity of polyconvex functionals.
A direct proof of the equivalence between the entropy solutions of conservation laws and viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations in one-space variable.
A Dirichlet problem for an H-system with variable H.
A disjunctive linear fractional max-min problem
A dual method for some class of systems of variational inequalities
A duality-based approach to elliptic control problems in non-reflexive Banach spaces
Convex duality is a powerful framework for solving non-smooth optimal control problems. However, for problems set in non-reflexive Banach spaces such as L1(Ω) or BV(Ω), the dual problem is formulated in a space which has difficult measure theoretic structure. The predual problem, on the other hand, can be formulated in a Hilbert space and entails the minimization of a smooth functional with box constraints, for which efficient numerical methods exist. In this work, elliptic control problems with...
A duality-based approach to elliptic control problems in non-reflexive Banach spaces*
Convex duality is a powerful framework for solving non-smooth optimal control problems. However, for problems set in non-reflexive Banach spaces such as L1(Ω) or BV(Ω), the dual problem is formulated in a space which has difficult measure theoretic structure. The predual problem, on the other hand, can be formulated in a Hilbert space and entails the minimization of a smooth functional with box constraints, for which efficient numerical methods exist. In this work, elliptic control problems with...
A dynamic programming algorithm for the buffer allocation problem in homogeneous asymptotically reliable serial production lines.
A fast algorithm for the two dimensional HJB equation of stochastic control
This paper analyses the implementation of the generalized finite differences method for the HJB equation of stochastic control, introduced by two of the authors in [Bonnans and Zidani, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 41 (2003) 1008–1021]. The computation of coefficients needs to solve at each point of the grid (and for each control) a linear programming problem. We show here that, for two dimensional problems, this linear programming problem can be solved in operations, where is the size of the stencil....
A fast algorithm for the two dimensional HJB equation of stochastic control
This paper analyses the implementation of the generalized finite differences method for the HJB equation of stochastic control, introduced by two of the authors in [Bonnans and Zidani, SIAM J. Numer. Anal.41 (2003) 1008–1021]. The computation of coefficients needs to solve at each point of the grid (and for each control) a linear programming problem. We show here that, for two dimensional problems, this linear programming problem can be solved in O(pmax) operations, where pmax is the size of...
A few words about history of extremal problems at Moscow University
A finite dimensional linear programming approximation of Mather's variational problem
We provide an approximation of Mather variational problem by finite dimensional minimization problems in the framework of Γ-convergence. By a linear programming interpretation as done in [Evans and Gomes, ESAIM: COCV 8 (2002) 693–702] we state a duality theorem for the Mather problem, as well a finite dimensional approximation for the dual problem.
A finite element analysis for elastoplastic bodies obeying Hencky's law
Using the Haar-Kármán principle, approximate solutions of the basic boundary value problems are proposed and studied, which consist of piecewise linear stress fields on composite triangles. The torsion problem is solved in an analogous manner. Some convergence results are proven.
A finiteness result in the free boundary value problem for minimal surfaces