Lie brackets and real analyticity in control theory
L∞-Norm minimal control of the wave equation: on the weakness of the bang-bang principle
For optimal control problems with ordinary differential equations where the -norm of the control is minimized, often bang-bang principles hold. For systems that are governed by a hyperbolic partial differential equation, the situation is different: even if a weak form of the bang-bang principle still holds for the wave equation, it implies no restriction on the form of the optimal control. To illustrate that for the Dirichlet boundary control of the wave equation in general not even feasible...