Existence of Optimal Controls for Semilinear Parabolic Equations without Cesari-Type Conditions

Applied Mathematics and Optimization

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 121-142

  Lou, Hongwei ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Existence; Optimal control; Relaxed control; Semilinear parabolic equation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONTROL THEORY; FUNCTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

CESARI-TYPE CONDITIONS; PARABOLIC EQUATIONS;

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0346272741     PISSN: 00954616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00245-002-0756-0     Document Type: Article

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