PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTIONP> -- 1.1 Finite dimensional systems: the maximum principle. -- 1.2. Finite dimensional systems: existence and uniqueness. -- 1.3. Infinite dimensional systems. -- CHAPTER 2: SYSTEMS WITH STRONGLY MEASURABLE CONTROLS, I -- 2.1. The reachable space and the bang-bang property -- 2.2. Reversible systems -- 2.3. The reachable space and its dual, I -- 2.4. The reachable space and its dual, II -- 2.5. The maximum principle -- 2.6. Vanishing of the costate and nonuniqueness for norm optimal controls -- 2.7. Vanishing of the costate for time optimal controls -- 2.8. Singular norm optimal controls -- 2.9. Singular norm optimal controls and singular functionals -- CHAPTER 3: SYSTEMS WITH STRONGLY MEASURABLE CONTROLS, II -- 3.1. Existence and uniqueness of optimal controls -- 3.2. The weak maximum principle and the time optimal problem -- 3.3. Modeling of parabolic equations -- 3.4. Weakly singular extremals -- 3.5. More on the weak maximum principle -- 3.6. Convergence of minimizing sequences and stability of optimal controls -- CHAPTER 4: OPTIMAL CONTROL OF HEAT PROPAGATION -- 4.1. Modeling of parabolic equations -- 4.2. Adjoints -- 4.3. Adjoint semigroups -- 4.4. The reachable space -- 4.5. The reachable space and its dual, I -- 4.6. The reachable space and its dual, II -- 4.7. The maximum principle -- 4.8. Existence, uniqueness and stability of optimal controls -- 4.9. Examples and applications -- CHAPTER 5: OPTIMAL CONTROL OF DIFFUSIONS -- 5.1. Modeling of parabolic equations -- 5.2. Dual spaces -- 5.3. The reachable space and its dual -- 5.4. The maximum principle -- 5.5. Existence of optimal controls; uniqueness and stability of supports -- 5.6. Examples and applications. -- CHAPTER 6: APPENDIX -- 6.1 Self adjoint operators, I -- 6.2 Self adjoint operators, II -- 6.3 Related research -- REFERENCES -- NOTATION AND SUBJECT INDEX. |