Editors: | F. Kongoli, M. de Campos |
Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
Publication Year: | 2018 |
Pages: | 184 pages |
ISBN: | 978-1-987820-96-6 |
ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
Multitime optimal control theory has been recently used in economics. Here, we develop some ideas using the context of optimal control and differential geometry. Specifically, two problems are analysed: (i) multitime evolution of reproducible resources, and (ii) multitime evolution of non-reproducible resources. The technique is to associate each problem with proper functional (like multiple integral or curvilinear integral) and appropriate constraints (geometric PDEs like m-flows, Goursat-Darboux PDEs, parallelism PDEs, and specific isoperimetric constraints like integrals). When the Hamiltonian is linear affine in the control, we focus on bang-bang and singular optimal controls.