Optimal Control Problems with Sparsity for Tumor Growth Models Involving Variational Inequalities

Pierluigi Colli (), Andrea Signori () and Jürgen Sprekels ()
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Pierluigi Colli: Università di Pavia
Andrea Signori: Università di Pavia
Jürgen Sprekels: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2022, vol. 194, issue 1, No 2, 25-58

Abstract: Abstract This paper treats a distributed optimal control problem for a tumor growth model of Cahn–Hilliard type. The evolution of the tumor fraction is governed by a variational inequality corresponding to a double obstacle nonlinearity occurring in the associated potential. In addition, the control and state variables are nonlinearly coupled and, furthermore, the cost functional contains a nondifferentiable term like the $$L^1$$ L 1 -norm in order to include sparsity effects which is of utmost relevance, especially time sparsity, in the context of cancer therapies as applying a control to the system reflects in exposing the patient to an intensive medical treatment. To cope with the difficulties originating from the variational inequality in the state system, we employ the so-called deep quench approximation in which the convex part of the double obstacle potential is approximated by logarithmic functions. For such functions, first-order necessary conditions of optimality can be established by invoking recent results. We use these results to derive corresponding optimality conditions also for the double obstacle case, by deducing a variational inequality in terms of the associated adjoint state variables. The resulting variational inequality can be exploited to also obtain sparsity results for the optimal controls.

Keywords: Optimal control; Tumor growth models; Double obstacle potentials; Optimality conditions; Variational inequality; Sparsity; 49J20; 49K20; 49K40; 35K57; 37N25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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