Singular Quadratic Functionals.
Smooth optimal synthesis for infinite horizon variational problems
We study Hamiltonian systems which generate extremal flows of regular variational problems on smooth manifolds and demonstrate that negativity of the generalized curvature of such a system implies the existence of a global smooth optimal synthesis for the infinite horizon problem. We also show that in the Euclidean case negativity of the generalized curvature is a consequence of the convexity of the Lagrangian with respect to the pair of arguments. Finally, we give a generic classification for...
State space synthesis of discrete linear systems
Sufficient conditions for infinite-horizon calculus of variations problems
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...