Time-dependent subdifferential evolution inclusions and optimal control

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The present monograph concerns the study of an evolution inclusion of subdifferential type: \[ -\dot x(t)\in\partial g(t, x(t))+ F(t, x(t))\quad\text{a.e. on }[0,b],\quad x(0)= a.\tag{E} \] The function \(g(t,\cdot)\) is assumed to be convex, and the symbol ``\(\partial\) is understood as the subdifferential operator in the sense of convex analysis. Here \(F(t,\cdot): H\to H\) is a nonmonotone set-valued perturbation with a time varying domain which satisfies a certain growth condition, and \(H\) is a separable Hilbert space. The authors discuss several issues related to the above evolution system: existence of solutions, relaxation, dependence of the solution set on external parameters, path-connectedness of the solution set. In a second part, the authors discuss an abstract optimal control problem which consists in minimizing the cost functional \[ J(x, u)= \int^b_0 L(t,x(t), u(t))dt, \] among all trajectories \(x\) satisfying the evolution inclusion (E), and all measurable controls \(u\) satisfying the feedback inclusion \[ u(t)\in U(t, x(t))\quad\text{a.e.} \] Special attention is paid to existence results, relaxability, and well-posedness.




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