A survey on sufficient optimality conditions for delayed optimal control problems (Q1979840)

``A survey on sufficient optimality conditions for delayed optimal control problems'' is the last chapter of the book ``Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Infectious Diseases'' of the series ``Studies in Systems, Decision and Control'' and presents a survey on recent sufficient optimality conditions for optimal control problems with time delays in both state and control variables. The authors do a detailed state of the art associated with optimality conditions for delayed optimal control problems, and the main results, Theorems 3.3 and 4.3, are obtained by transforming delayed optimal control problems into equivalent non-delayed problems. Such approach allows using of standard theorems that ensure sufficient optimality conditions for non-delayed optimal control problems. In the entire chapter it is assumed that the time delays \(r\) and \(s\) respect the following Commensurability Assumption, introduced by \textit{L. Göllmann} et al. [``Optimal control problems with delays in state and control variables subject to mixed control-state constraints'', Optim. Control Appl. Methods 30, No. 4, 341--365 (2009; \url{doi:10.1002/oca.843})], that is, \(r,s\geq 0\) are not simultaneously equal to zero and are commensurable, i.e., \[ \frac{r}{s}\in\mathbb{Q}\quad\text{for } s>0\,,\quad\text{or}\quad\frac{s}{r}\in\mathbb{Q}\quad\text{for } r>0\,. \] In Section 3, they first consider optimal control problems that consist to minimize a delayed non-linear cost functional subject to a delayed differential system that is linear with respect to state, but not with respect to control. The cost functional does not have to be quadratic, but it just satisfies some continuity and convexity assumptions. In Section 4, they then consider optimal control problems that consist to minimize a delayed non-linear cost functional subject to a delayed non-linear differential system. In both Sections 3 and 4, the delay in the state is the same for the cost functional and for the differential system. At the end of these sections, they also provide examples that illustrate the usefulness of the main results. The proofs of Theorems 3.3 and 4.3 are not given, but can be found in [the authors, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., Ser. B 24, No. 5, 2293--2313 (2019; Zbl 1419.49024); Pure Appl. Funct. Anal. 4, No. 2, 345--361 (2019; Zbl 1458.49019)]. . For the entire collection see [Zbl 1467.92006].