ISSN:
1573-2878
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Mathematics
Notes:
Abstract In 1934, Tonelli proved, for free problems withn=1, that the trajectories of a minimizing sequence are equiabsolutely continuous provided a pointwise growth condition is satisfied everywhere except at the points of an exceptional set where an additional mild hypothesis is required, condition (T). The author extended this result to optimal control problems by the use of a uniform growth condition, called (α), which is equivalent to Tonelli's pointwise growth condition for free problems with convex integrand (Refs. 4–5, 10). More recently, condition (α), or condition (Φ), which is equivalent to (α) for optimal control problems, was replaced by the much weaker condition (β) in existence theorems for optimal control problems (Refs. 1–2). In the present paper, we show that this same combination of growth condition (α) and condition (T) at the points of the exceptional set is actually a special case of the growth condition (β), which does not use the concept of the exceptional set.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00927690
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