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Vol. 49 No. 1–3 (2023)
Serdica Mathematical Journal

Articles

On necessary conditions in the generalized Bolza problem

https://doi.org/10.55630/serdica.2023.49.9-32

Published 20-11-2023

  • Alexander D. Ioffe

Alexander D. Ioffe
Technion, Israel

Abstract

The paper is devoted to proving necessary optimality conditions for weak/intermediate/strong minimum of a generalized Bolza problem.

2020 Mathematics Subject Classification:

49K15, 49K21, 49K27

Keywords

Bolza problem, Pontryagin maximum principle, variational analysis

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Author Details

Alexander D. Ioffe

Department of Mathematics
Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel
e-mail: alexander.ioffe38@gmail.com

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