Optimal Solutions for a Class of Set-Valued Evolution Problems

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Alberto Bressan, Maria Teresa Chiri, Stefano Bianchini

Publication date: 7 July 2023

Abstract: The paper is concerned with a class of optimization problems for moving sets $tmapstoOmega(t)subsetmathbb{R}^2$, motivated by the control of invasive biological populations. Assuming that the initial contaminated set $Omeg{a}_0$ is convex, we prove that a strategy is optimal if an only if at each given time $tin[0,T]$ the control is active along the portion of the boundary $partialOmega(t)$ where the curvature is maximal. In particular, this implies that $Omega(t)$ is convex for all $tgeq0$. The proof relies on the analysis of a one-step constrained optimization problem, obtained by a time discretization.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory (28A75) Set-valued and variational analysis (49J53) Optimality conditions for free problems in one independent variable (49K05)

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