Abnormality and Strict-Sense Minimizers That Are Not Extended Minimizers

Giovanni Fusco and Monica Motta ()
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Giovanni Fusco: Department of Mathematics “Tullio Levi-Civita”, Università degli Studi di Padova, Via Trieste, 63, 35121 Padova, Italy
Monica Motta: Department of Mathematics “Tullio Levi-Civita”, Università degli Studi di Padova, Via Trieste, 63, 35121 Padova, Italy

Mathematics, 2024, vol. 12, issue 7, 1-21

Abstract: We consider a constrained optimal control problem and an extension of it, in which the set of strict-sense trajectories is enlarged. Extension is a common procedure in optimal control used to derive necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for the original problem from the extended one, which usually admits a minimizer and has a more regular structure. However, this procedure fails if the two problems have different infima. Therefore, it is relevant to identify such situations. Following on from earlier work by Warga but adopting perturbation techniques developed in nonsmooth analysis, we investigate the relation between the occurrence of an infimum gap and the abnormality of necessary conditions. For the notion of a local minimizer based on control distance and an extension, including the impulsive one, we prove that (i) a local extended minimizer that is not a local minimizer of the original problem, and (ii) a local strict-sense minimizer that is not a local minimizer of the extended problem both satisfy the extended maximum principle in abnormal form. The main novelty is result (ii), as until now, it has only been shown that a strict-sense minimizer that is not an extended minimizer is abnormal for an ‘averaged version’ of the maximum principle.

Keywords: optimal control problems; maximum principle; state constraints; gap phenomena; impulsive optimal control (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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