Existence of viable solutions for nonconvex differential inclusions.
We present two existence results for the Dirichlet elliptic inclusion with an upper semicontinuous multivalued right-hand side in exponential-type Orlicz spaces involving a vector Laplacian, subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions on a domain Ω⊂ ℝ². The first result is obtained via the multivalued version of the Leray-Schauder principle together with the Nakano-Dieudonné sequential weak compactness criterion. The second result is obtained by using the nonsmooth variational technique together with...
An optimal control problem is studied, in which the state is required to remain in a compact set . A control feedback law is constructed which, for given , produces -optimal trajectories that satisfy the state constraint universally with respect to all initial conditions in . The construction relies upon a constraint removal technique which utilizes geometric properties of inner approximations of and a related trajectory tracking result. The control feedback is shown to possess a robustness...
An optimal control problem is studied, in which the state is required to remain in a compact set S. A control feedback law is constructed which, for given ε > 0, produces ε-optimal trajectories that satisfy the state constraint universally with respect to all initial conditions in S. The construction relies upon a constraint removal technique which utilizes geometric properties of inner approximations of S and a related trajectory tracking result. The control feedback is shown to possess a robustness...
First order characterizations of pseudoconvex functions are investigated in terms of generalized directional derivatives. A connection with the invexity is analysed. Well-known first order characterizations of the solution sets of pseudolinear programs are generalized to the case of pseudoconvex programs. The concepts of pseudoconvexity and invexity do not depend on a single definition of the generalized directional derivative.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 90C46, 90C26, 26B25, 49J52.The constrained optimization problem min f(x), gj(x) ≤ 0 (j = 1,…p) is considered, where f : X → R and gj : X → R are nonsmooth functions with domain X ⊂ Rn. First-order necessary and first-order sufficient optimality conditions are obtained when gj are quasiconvex functions. Two are the main features of the paper: to treat nonsmooth problems it makes use of Dini derivatives; to obtain more sensitive conditions, it admits directionally...
Initially, second-order necessary optimality conditions and sufficient optimality conditions in terms of Hadamard type derivatives for the unconstrained scalar optimization problem , , are given. These conditions work with arbitrary functions , but they show inconsistency with the classical derivatives. This is a base to pose the question whether the formulated optimality conditions remain true when the “inconsistent” Hadamard derivatives are replaced with the “consistent” Dini derivatives. It...
Significant information about the topology of a bounded domain of a Riemannian manifold is encoded into the properties of the distance, , from the boundary of . We discuss recent results showing the invariance of the singular set of the distance function with respect to the generalized gradient flow of , as well as applications to homotopy equivalence.
Let (Ω,μ) be a measure space, E be an arbitrary separable Banach space, be the dual equipped with the weak* topology, and g:Ω × E → ℝ be a Carathéodory function which is Lipschitz continuous on each ball of E for almost all s ∈ Ω. Put . Consider the integral functional G defined on some non--type Banach space X of measurable functions x: Ω → E. We present several general theorems on sufficient conditions under which any element γ ∈ X* of Clarke’s generalized gradient (multivalued C-subgradient)...