On existence problems for the optimal control of certain nonlinear integral equations of Urysohn type

In Refs. 1–3, existence results have been obtained for optimal control problems whose state equations are described by certain nonlinear integral equations of Urysohn type. We generalize and synthesize these results by formulating a general lower closure result from which the results of Refs. 1–3 are shown to follow. In the course of this, we also present a novel and rather abstract treatment of existence problems for variable-time optimal control, quite in the spirit of Ref. 4.