Minimax control of parabolic systems with Dirichlet boundary conditions and state constraints (Q1381318)

The authors formulate and study a minimax control problem for a class of parabolic systems with controlled Dirichlet boundary conditions and uncertain distributed perturbations under pointwise control and state constraints. The authors prove an existence theorem for minimax solutions and develop effective penalized procedures to approximate state constraints. Based on a careful variational analysis, the authors establish convergence results and optimality conditions for approximating problems that allow them to characterize suboptimal solutions to the original minimax problem with hard constraints. Then passing to the limit in approximations, the authors prove necessary optimality conditions for the minimax problem considered under proper constraint qualification conditions.