Semiconcavity of the value function for exit time problems with nonsmooth target
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Semiconcavity of the value function for exit time problems with nonsmooth target
zbMATH Open document ID: 1064.49024
author: Carlo Sinestrari
published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis
publication date: 2005-03-10T00:00:00Z
review text: The author proves a new semiconcavity theorem for the value function \[ V(x):=\inf_{u(.)}\int_0^{\tau(x;u(.))}L(y(t))dt, \;x\in {\mathcal R}:=\text{dom}(V(.)) \] of the \textit{exit time problem} defined by the control system \[ y'(t)=f(y(t),u(t)), \;u(t)\in U, \;x(0)=x\in R^n, \;\tau(x;u(.)):=\inf\{t\geq 0; \;y(t)\in {\mathcal K}\} \] where, in contrast with previous work on this topic, the target \({\mathcal K}\subset R^n\) is an arbitrary closed set with compact boundary while the ``vectograms'' \(f(x,U)\) are assumed to be smooth and convex. The main result of the paper may also be interpreted as a regularity result for the viscosity solutions of the associated HJB equation \[ H(x,DV(x))=0, \;x\in {\mathcal R}\setminus {\mathcal K}, \;H(x,p):= \inf_{u\in U}[-<f(x,u),p>-L(x)], \] \[ V(x)=0, x\in\partial{\mathcal K}, \;\lim_{x\to \partial{\mathcal R}}V(x)= +\infty \] and may be related to some of the previous results on this topic.
reviewed by: Ştefan Mirică
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 49L20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 49L25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35D10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 26B25
zbMATH DE Number: 2143215
zbMATH Keywords: optimal control
zbMATH Keywords: exit time problem
zbMATH Keywords: dynamic programming
zbMATH Keywords: value function
zbMATH Keywords: semiconcavity
zbMATH Keywords: Hamilton-Jacobi equation
zbMATH Keywords: viscosity solutions
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: cpaa.2004.3.757
OpenAlex ID: W1985081576
DOI: 10.3934/CPAA.2004.3.757
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