A.A. Agrachev, Well-posed infinite horizon variational problems on a compact manifold

Title: Well-posed infinite horizon variational problems
Authors: A.A. Agrachev
Journal title: Proceed. Steklov Math. Inst.
Year: 2010
Volume: 268
Pages: 17-31
Citation:

A. A. Agrachev, “Well-posed infinite horizon variational problems on a compact manifold”, Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 2010, 268, 17–31

Abstract:

We give an effective sufficient condition for a variational problem with infinite horizon on a Riemannian manifold M to admit a smooth optimal synthesis, i. e. a smooth dynamical system on M whose positive semi-trajectories are solutions to the problem. To realize the synthesis we construct a well-projected to M invariant Lagrange submanifold of the extremals’ flow in the cotangent bundle T*M. The construction uses the curvature of the flow in the cotangent bundle
and some ideas of hyperbolic dynamics.

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ArXiv ID (ENG): 0906.4433