Optimal control problems with partial differential equations as constraints play an important role in many applications. The inclusion of bound constraints for the state variable poses a significant challenge for optimization methods. Our focus here is on the incorporation of the constraints via the Moreau-Yosida regularization technique. This method has been studied recently and has proven to ...

This paper studies a new alteration of Yosida algebraic splitting methods for the Navier-Stokes equations. By applying the usual or pressurecorrected Yosida splitting techniques to discretizations written in terms of velocity and pressure updates, we show that the accuracy is increased by one full order in ∆t without any additional cost in the respective methods. Proofs of the convergence resul...

The universal density functional F of density-functional theory is a complicated and ill-behaved function of the density-in particular, F is not differentiable, making many formal manipulations more complicated. While F has been well characterized in terms of convex analysis as forming a conjugate pair (E, F) with the ground-state energy E via the Hohenberg-Kohn and Lieb variation principles, F...

We study conditions on a sequence of probability measures {µ n } n on a commutative hyper-group K, which ensure that, for any representation π of K on a Hilbert space Ᏼ π and for any ξ ∈ Ᏼ π , (K π x (ξ)dµ n (x)) n converges to a π-invariant member of Ᏼ π. 1. Introduction. The mean ergodic theorem was originally formulated by von Neu-mann [13] for one-parameter unitary groups in Hilbert space. ...