Turnpike Properties in the Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control (Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications, Band 80) - Softcover

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Simeon Reich is the Lord Leonard Wolfson Academic Chair and Professor of Mathematics at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. He has published more than fifty articles in mathematics journals including the Journal of Nonlinear Convex Analysis, SIAM Journal of Optimization, and Journal of Applied Analysis and fifteen books. Alexander J. Zaslavski is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Mathematics at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. He has published over one hundred journal articles, and has authored books including Optimization on Metric and Normed Spaces (Springer, 2010) and Nonconvex Optimal Control and Variational Problems (Springer, 2013).

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This book is devoted to the recent progress on the turnpike theory. The turnpike property was discovered by Paul A. Samuelson, who applied it to problems in mathematical economics in 1949. These properties were studied for optimal trajectories of models of economic dynamics determined by convex processes. In this monograph the author, a leading expert in modern turnpike theory, presents a number of results concerning the turnpike properties in the calculus of variations and optimal control which were obtained in the last ten years. These results show that the turnpike properties form a general phenomenon which holds for various classes of variational problems and optimal control problems. The book should help to correct the misapprehension that turnpike properties are only special features of some narrow classes of convex problems of mathematical economics.

Audience

This book is intended for mathematicians interested in optimal control, calculus of variations, game theory and mathematical economics.