Sufficient conditions for infinite-horizon calculus of variations problems

Joël Blot; Naïla Hayek

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (2010)

  • Volume: 5, page 279-292
  • ISSN: 1292-8119

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After a brief survey of the literature about sufficient conditions, we give different sufficient conditions of optimality for infinite-horizon calculus of variations problems in the general (non concave) case. Some sufficient conditions are obtained by extending to the infinite-horizon setting the techniques of extremal fields. Others are obtained in a special qcase of reduction to finite horizon. The last result uses auxiliary functions. We treat five notions of optimality. Our problems are essentially motivated by macroeconomic optimal growth models.

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Blot, Joël, and Hayek, Naïla. "Sufficient conditions for infinite-horizon calculus of variations problems." ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations 5 (2010): 279-292. <http://eudml.org/doc/197279>.

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author = {Blot, Joël, Hayek, Naïla},
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