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The extension of optimisation problems containing controls in the coefficients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

K. A. Lurie
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280, U.S.A.

Synopsis

The paper suggests a procedure for direct construction of minimal extensions of constrained optimisation problems, particularly those containing controls in coefficients of elliptic equations. The preliminary version of the procedure has been described in [1].

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1990

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