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A General Backwards Calculus of Variations via Duality
We prove Euler-Lagrange and natural boundary necessary optimality conditions
for problems of the calculus of variations which are given by a composition of
nabla integrals on an arbitrary time scale. As an application, we get
optimality conditions for the product and the quotient of nabla variational
functionals.Comment: Submitted to Optimization Letters 03-June-2010; revised 01-July-2010;
accepted for publication 08-July-201
Noether's symmetry theorem for nabla problems of the calculus of variations
We prove a Noether-type symmetry theorem and a DuBois-Reymond necessary
optimality condition for nabla problems of the calculus of variations on time
scales.Comment: Submitted 20/Oct/2009; Revised 27/Jan/2010; Accepted 28/July/2010;
for publication in Applied Mathematics Letter
Backward Linear Control Systems on Time Scales
We show how a linear control systems theory for the backward nabla
differential operator on an arbitrary time scale can be obtained via Caputo's
duality. More precisely, we consider linear control systems with outputs
defined with respect to the backward jump operator. Kalman criteria of
controllability and observability, as well as realizability conditions, are
proved.Comment: Submitted November 11, 2009; Revised March 28, 2010; Accepted April
03, 2010; for publication in the International Journal of Control
Optimality conditions for the calculus of variations with higher-order delta derivatives
We prove the Euler-Lagrange delta-differential equations for problems of the
calculus of variations on arbitrary time scales with delta-integral functionals
depending on higher-order delta derivatives.Comment: Submitted 26/Jul/2009; Revised 04/Aug/2010; Accepted 09/Aug/2010; for
publication in "Applied Mathematics Letters
Fractional Calculus of Variations for Double Integrals
We consider fractional isoperimetric problems of calculus of variations with
double integrals via the recent modified Riemann-Liouville approach. A
necessary optimality condition of Euler-Lagrange type, in the form of a
multitime fractional PDE, is proved, as well as a sufficient condition and
fractional natural boundary conditions.Comment: Submitted 07-Sept-2010; revised 25-Nov-2010; accepted 07-Feb-2011;
for publication in Balkan Journal of Geometers and Its Applications (BJGA
Direct and Inverse Variational Problems on Time Scales: A Survey
We deal with direct and inverse problems of the calculus of variations on
arbitrary time scales. Firstly, using the Euler-Lagrange equation and the
strengthened Legendre condition, we give a general form for a variational
functional to attain a local minimum at a given point of the vector space.
Furthermore, we provide a necessary condition for a dynamic
integro-differential equation to be an Euler-Lagrange equation (Helmholtz's
problem of the calculus of variations on time scales). New and interesting
results for the discrete and quantum settings are obtained as particular cases.
Finally, we consider very general problems of the calculus of variations given
by the composition of a certain scalar function with delta and nabla integrals
of a vector valued field.Comment: This is a preprint of a paper whose final and definite form will be
published in the Springer Volume 'Modeling, Dynamics, Optimization and
Bioeconomics II', Edited by A. A. Pinto and D. Zilberman (Eds.), Springer
Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Submitted 03/Sept/2014; Accepted,
after a revision, 19/Jan/201
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