Download or read book Semiconcave Functions, Hamilton-Jacobi Equations, and Optimal Control written by Piermarco Cannarsa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * A comprehensive and systematic exposition of the properties of semiconcave functions and their various applications, particularly to optimal control problems, by leading experts in the field * A central role in the present work is reserved for the study of singularities * Graduate students and researchers in optimal control, the calculus of variations, and PDEs will find this book useful as a reference work on modern dynamic programming for nonlinear control systems