Hamilton-Jacobi inequalities on a metric space (Q2214715)

In some applied models (of flocking or of the crowd control) it is more natural to deal with elements of a metric space (as for instance a family of subsets of a vector space endowed with the Hausdorff metric) rather than with vectors in a normed vector space. The authors consider an optimal control problem involving the so called morphological control system whose trajectories are time dependent tubes of subsets of \(\mathbb R^n\), i.e. \[\text{minimize } g(K(1))\] over all the solutions \(K(\cdot):[t_0,1]\to \mathscr{K}(\mathbb R^n)\) to the morphological control system \[\stackrel{\circ}{K}\ni f(K(\cdot),u(\cdot)), \,\, u(\cdot)\in \mathscr{U}\,\,\mbox{and}\,\, K(t_0)=K_0,\] when \(f: {\mathscr{K}}(\mathbb R^n)\times U\to \mathrm{Lip}(\mathbb R^n,\mathbb R^n)\), \(g: {\mathscr{K}}(\mathbb R^n)\to \mathbb R\cup +\infty\), \(t_0\in [0,1]\) and \(K_0\in {\mathscr{K}}(\mathbb R^n)\). The authors show that the theory of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman inequalities can be extended to this framework.