Wulong Liu, Guowei Dai, Patrick Winkert, Shengda Zeng
{"title":"Multiple Positive Solutions for Quasilinear Elliptic Problems in Expanding Domains","authors":"Wulong Liu, Guowei Dai, Patrick Winkert, Shengda Zeng","doi":"10.1007/s00245-024-10155-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00245-024-10155-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper we prove the existence of multiple positive solutions for a quasilinear elliptic problem with unbalanced growth in expanding domains by using variational methods and the Lusternik–Schnirelmann category theory. Based on the properties of the category, we introduce suitable maps between the expanding domains and the critical levels of the energy functional related to the problem, which allow us to estimate the number of positive solutions by the shape of the domain.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55566,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Optimization","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00245-024-10155-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Continuous-Time Mean Field Markov Decision Models","authors":"Nicole Bäuerle, Sebastian Höfer","doi":"10.1007/s00245-024-10154-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00245-024-10154-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We consider a finite number of <i>N</i> statistically equal agents, each moving on a finite set of states according to a continuous-time Markov Decision Process (MDP). Transition intensities of the agents and generated rewards depend not only on the state and action of the agent itself, but also on the states of the other agents as well as the chosen action. Interactions like this are typical for a wide range of models in e.g. biology, epidemics, finance, social science and queueing systems among others. The aim is to maximize the expected discounted reward of the system, i.e. the agents have to cooperate as a team. Computationally this is a difficult task when <i>N</i> is large. Thus, we consider the limit for <span>(Nrightarrow infty .)</span> In contrast to other papers we treat this problem from an MDP perspective. This has the advantage that we need less regularity assumptions in order to construct asymptotically optimal strategies than using viscosity solutions of HJB equations. The convergence rate is <span>(1/sqrt{N})</span>. We show how to apply our results using two examples: a machine replacement problem and a problem from epidemics. We also show that optimal feedback policies from the limiting problem are not necessarily asymptotically optimal.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55566,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Optimization","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00245-024-10154-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142413115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global Behavior in a Two-Species Chemotaxis-Competition System with Signal-Dependent Sensitivities and Nonlinear Productions","authors":"Zhan Jiao, Irena Jadlovská, Tongxing Li","doi":"10.1007/s00245-024-10137-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00245-024-10137-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article considers a two competitive biological species system involving signal-dependent motilities and sensitivities and nonlinear productions </p><div><div><span>$$begin{aligned} left{ begin{array}{l} begin{aligned} &{}u_t = nabla cdot big (D_1(v)nabla u-uS_1(v)nabla vbig )+mu _1u(1-u^{alpha _1}-a_1w),&{} xin Omega , t>0&{}, &{} v_t=Delta v-v+b_1w^{gamma _1}, &{} xin Omega , t>0&{}, &{}w_t = nabla cdot big (D_2(z)nabla w-wS_2(z)nabla zbig )+mu _2w(1-w^{alpha _2}-a_2u),&{} xin Omega , t>0&{}, &{} z_t=Delta z-z+b_2u^{gamma _2}, &{} xin Omega , t>0&{} end{aligned} end{array} right. end{aligned}$$</span></div></div><p>in a bounded and smooth domain <span>(Omega subset mathbb R^2)</span>, where the parameters <span>(mu _i, alpha _i, a_i, b_i, gamma _i)</span> <span>((i=1,2))</span> are positive constants, and the functions <span>(D_1(v),S_1(v),D_2(z),S_2(z))</span> fulfill the following hypotheses: <span>(Diamond )</span> <span>(D_i(psi ),S_i(psi )in C^2([0,infty )))</span>, <span>(D_i(psi ),S_i(psi )>0)</span> for all <span>(psi ge 0)</span>, <span>(D_i^{prime }(psi )<0)</span> and <span>(underset{psi rightarrow infty }{lim } D_i(psi )=0)</span>; <span>(Diamond )</span> <span>(underset{psi rightarrow infty }{lim } frac{S_i(psi )}{D_i(psi )})</span> and <span>(underset{psi rightarrow infty }{lim } frac{D^{prime }_i(psi )}{D_i(psi )})</span> exist. We first confirm the global boundedness of the classical solution provided that the additional conditions <span>(2gamma _1le 1+alpha _2)</span> and <span>(2gamma _2le 1+alpha _1)</span> hold. Moreover, by constructing several suitable Lyapunov functionals, it is demonstrated that the global solution exponentially or algebraically converges to the constant stationary solutions and the corresponding convergence rates are determined under some specific stress conditions.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55566,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Optimization","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142413102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Camilla Brizzi, Guillaume Carlier, Luigi De Pascale
{"title":"Entropic Approximation of (infty )-Optimal Transport Problems","authors":"Camilla Brizzi, Guillaume Carlier, Luigi De Pascale","doi":"10.1007/s00245-024-10136-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00245-024-10136-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We propose an entropic approximation approach for optimal transportation problems with a supremal cost. We establish <span>(Gamma )</span>-convergence for suitably chosen parameters for the entropic penalization and that this procedure selects <span>(infty )</span>-cyclically monotone plans at the limit. We also present some numerical illustrations performed with Sinkhorn’s algorithm.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55566,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Optimization","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00245-024-10136-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142412294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uniform Large Deviation Principle for the Solutions of Two-Dimensional Stochastic Navier–Stokes Equations in Vorticity Form","authors":"Ankit Kumar, Manil T. Mohan","doi":"10.1007/s00245-024-10150-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00245-024-10150-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The main objective of this paper is to demonstrate the uniform large deviation principle (UDLP) for the solutions of two-dimensional stochastic Navier–Stokes equations (SNSE) in the vorticity form when perturbed by two distinct types of noises. We first consider an infinite-dimensional additive noise that is white in time and colored in space and then consider a finite-dimensional Wiener process with linear growth coefficient. In order to obtain the ULDP for 2D SNSE in the vorticity form, where the noise is white in time and colored in space, we utilize the existence and uniqueness result from <i>B. Ferrario et. al., Stochastic Process. Appl.,</i> <b>129</b> <i> (2019), 1568–1604,</i> and the <i>uniform contraction principle</i>. For the finite-dimensional multiplicative Wiener noise, we first prove the existence of a unique local mild solution to the vorticity equation using a truncation and fixed point arguments. We then establish the global existence of the truncated system by deriving a uniform energy estimate for the local mild solution. By applying stopping time arguments and a version of Skorokhod’s representation theorem, we conclude the global existence and uniqueness of a solution to our model. We employ the weak convergence approach to establish the ULDP for the law of the solutions in two distinct topologies. We prove ULDP in the <span>({{textrm{C}}([0,T];{textrm{L}}^p({mathbb {T}}^2))})</span> topology, for <span>(p>2)</span>, taking into account the uniformity of the initial conditions contained in bounded subsets of <span>({{textrm{L}}^p({mathbb {T}}^2)})</span>. Finally, in <span>({{textrm{C}}([0,T]times {mathbb {T}}^2)})</span> topology, the uniformity of initial conditions lying in bounded subsets of <span>({{textrm{C}}({mathbb {T}}^2)})</span> is considered.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55566,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Optimization","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142412215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Convexification Numerical Method for the Retrospective Problem of Mean Field Games","authors":"Michael V. Klibanov, Jingzhi Li, Zhipeng Yang","doi":"10.1007/s00245-024-10152-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00245-024-10152-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The convexification numerical method with the rigorously established global convergence property is constructed for a problem for the Mean Field Games System of the second order. This is the problem of the retrospective analysis of a game of infinitely many rational players. In addition to traditional initial and terminal conditions, one extra terminal condition is assumed to be known. Carleman estimates and a Carleman Weight Function play the key role. Numerical experiments demonstrate a good performance for complicated functions. Various versions of the convexification have been actively used by this research team for a number of years to numerically solve coefficient inverse problems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55566,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Optimization","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141339941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Existence of Pseudo-Relative Sharp Minimizers in Set-Valued Optimization","authors":"Tijani Amahroq, Abdessamad Oussarhan","doi":"10.1007/s00245-024-10147-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00245-024-10147-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55566,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Optimization","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141339716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Small-Mass Limit for Stationary Solutions of Stochastic Wave Equations with State Dependent Friction","authors":"Sandra Cerrai, Mengzi Xie","doi":"10.1007/s00245-024-10153-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00245-024-10153-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate the convergence, in the small mass limit, of the stationary solutions of a class of stochastic damped wave equations, where the friction coefficient depends on the state and the noisy perturbation is of multiplicative type. We show that the Smoluchowski–Kramers approximation that has been previously shown to be true in any fixed time interval, is still valid in the long time regime. Namely, we prove that the first marginals of any sequence of stationary solutions for the damped wave equation converge to the unique invariant measure of the limiting stochastic quasilinear parabolic equation. The convergence is proved with respect to the Wasserstein distance associated with the <span>(H^{-1})</span> norm.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55566,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Optimization","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142411728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pontryagin’s Principle for Some Probabilistic Control Problems","authors":"Wim van Ackooij, René Henrion, Hasnaa Zidani","doi":"10.1007/s00245-024-10151-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00245-024-10151-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper we investigate optimal control problems perturbed by random events. We assume that the control has to be decided prior to observing the outcome of the perturbed state equations. We investigate the use of probability functions in the objective function or constraints to define optimal or feasible controls. We provide an extension of differentiability results for probability functions in infinite dimensions usable in this context. These results are subsequently combined with the optimal control setting to derive a novel Pontryagin’s optimality principle.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55566,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Optimization","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141254136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infinite Horizon Mean-Field Linear Quadratic Optimal Control Problems with Jumps and the Related Hamiltonian Systems","authors":"Qingmeng Wei, Yaqi Xu, Zhiyong Yu","doi":"10.1007/s00245-024-10148-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00245-024-10148-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this work, we focus on an infinite horizon mean-field linear-quadratic stochastic control problem with jumps. Firstly, the infinite horizon linear mean-field stochastic differential equations and backward stochastic differential equations with jumps are studied to support the research of the control problem. The global integrability properties of their solution processes are studied by introducing a kind of so-called dissipation conditions suitable for the systems involving the mean-field terms and jumps. For the control problem, we conclude a sufficient and necessary condition of open-loop optimal control by the variational approach. Besides, a kind of infinite horizon fully coupled linear mean-field forward-backward stochastic differential equations with jumps is studied by using the method of continuation. Such a research makes the characterization of the open-loop optimal controls more straightforward and complete.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55566,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Optimization","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142409675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}