Epi-convergent discretization of the generalized Bolza problem in dynamic optimization |
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Authors: | Boris S Mordukhovich Teemu Pennanen |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA;(2) Department of Business Technology, Helsinki School of Economics, PL1210, 00101 Helsinki, Finland |
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Abstract: | The paper is devoted to well-posed discrete approximations of the so-called generalized Bolza problem of minimizing variational
functionals defined via extended-real-valued functions. This problem covers more conventional Bolza-type problems in the calculus
of variations and optimal control of differential inclusions as well of parameterized differential equations. Our main goal
is find efficient conditions ensuring an appropriate epi-convergence of discrete approximations, which plays a significant
role in both the qualitative theory and numerical algorithms of optimization and optimal control. The paper seems to be the
first attempt to study epi-convergent discretizations of the generalized Bolza problem; it establishes several rather general
results in this direction.
Research of B. S. Mordukhovich was partially supported by the USA National Science Foundation under grants DMS-0304989 and
DMS-0603846 and by the Australian Research Council under grant DP-0451168. Research of T. Pennanen was supported by the Finnish
Academy of Sciences under contract No. 3385. |
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Keywords: | Optimization and optimal control Generalized problem of Bolza Discrete approximations Epi-convergence |
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