Constrained nonsmooth problems of the calculus of variations

DOI10.1051/COCV/2021074zbMATH Open1473.49023arXiv2004.14061OpenAlexW3184637252MaRDI QIDQ3383288FDOQ3383288

Authors: Maxim Dolgopolik 

Publication date: 23 September 2021

Published in: ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The paper is devoted to an analysis of optimality conditions for nonsmooth multidimensional problems of the calculus of variations with various types of constraints, such as additional constraints at the boundary and isoperimetric constraints. To derive optimality conditions, we study generalised concepts of differentiability of nonsmooth functions called codifferentiability and quasidifferentiability. Under some natural and easily verifiable assumptions we prove that a nonsmooth integral functional defined on the Sobolev space is continuously codifferentiable and compute its codifferential and quasidifferential. Then we apply general optimality conditions for nonsmooth optimisation problems in Banach spaces to obtain optimality conditions for nonsmooth problems of the calculus of variations. Through a series of simple examples we demonstrate that our optimality conditions are sometimes better than existing ones in terms of various subdifferentials, in the sense that our optimality conditions can detect the non-optimality of a given point, when subdifferential-based optimality conditions fail to disqualify this point as non-optimal.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14061

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zbMATH Keywords

calculus of variationsnonsmooth analysisoptimality conditionscodifferentialquasidifferential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonsmooth analysis (49J52) Programming in abstract spaces (90C48) Optimality conditions for free problems in two or more independent variables (49K10)

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