On consistent regularities of control and value functions

Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 401-426

  Melnik, V Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Approximations of the Hamiltonian; Coupling regularities; Discrete control; Hausdorff topological spaces; Probabilistic weight functions

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CONSISTENT REGULARITIES OF CONTROL; COUPLING REGULARITIES; HAUSDORFF TOPOLOGICAL SPACE; PROBABILISTIC WEIGHT FUNCTIONS; VALUE FUNCTIONS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 0031108506     PISSN: 01630563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01630569708816768     Document Type: Article

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