Principles of Dynamic Optimization

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This monograph explores key principles in the modern theory of dynamic optimization, incorporating important advances in the field to provide a comprehensive, mathematically rigorous reference. Emphasis is placed on nonsmooth analytic techniques, and an in-depth treatment of necessary conditions, minimizer regularity, and global optimality conditions related to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation is given. New, streamlined proofs of fundamental theorems are incorporated throughout the text that eliminate earlier, cumbersome reductions and constructions. The first chapter offers an extended overview of dynamic optimization and its history that details the shortcomings of the elementary theory and demonstrates how a deeper analysis aims to overcome them. Aspects of dynamic programming well-matched to analytical techniques are considered in the final chapter, including characterization of extended-value functions associated with problems having endpoint and state constraints, inverse verification theorems, sensitivity relationships, and links to the maximum principle.

This text will be a valuable resource for those seeking an understanding of dynamic optimization. The lucid exposition, insights into the field, and comprehensive coverage will benefit postgraduates, researchers, and professionals in system science, control engineering, optimization, and applied mathematics.

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xviii

Overview

Set Convergence, Measurability and Existence of Minimizers

Pages 91-117

Variational Principles

Pages 119-147

Nonsmooth Analysis

Pages 149-216

Subdifferential Calculus

Pages 217-240

Differential Inclusions

Pages 241-294

The Maximum Principle

Pages 295-331

The Generalized Euler-Lagrange and Hamiltonian Inclusion Conditions

Pages 333-409

Free End-Time Problems

Pages 411-469

The Maximum Principle for Problems with Pathwise Constraints

Pages 471-545

The Euler-Lagrange and Hamiltonian Inclusion Conditions in the Presence of State Constraints

Pages 547-589

Regularity of Minimizers