Special Session 83: Optimal Control Theory and Applications

On Optimal Control Problem related to the Infinity Laplacian

Henok Z Mawi
Howard University
USA
Co-Author(s):    Cheikh Ndiaye
Abstract:
The infinity Laplacian equation is given by \[ \Delta_{\infty} u := u_{x_i}u_{x_j}u_{x_ix_j} = 0 \qquad \text{ in } \quad \Omega \] where $\Omega$ is an open bounded subset of $\mathbb R^n.$ This equation is a kind of an Euler-Lagrange equation of the variational problem of minimizing the functional \[ I[v] := \textrm{ess sup} \, |Dv|, \] among all Lipschitz continuous functions $v,$ satisfying a prescribed boundary value on $\partial \Omega.$ The infinity obstacle problem is the minimization problem \[ \min \{ I[v]: v \in W^{1, \infty} , \quad \, v\geq \psi \} \] for a given function $\psi \in W^{1, \infty}$ which we refer to as the \emph{obstacle}. In this talk we will discuss an optimal control problem related to the infinity obstacle problem.