This is a research-level book in optimization. The results herein can be applied to various fields, from physics to economics. A nice feature is its great number of examples, which help the reader to understand the meaning of various statements and assumptions. It will be very useful not only to research professionals in the field of optimization, nonlinear programming and optimal control, but also to users of optimization in mechanics, physics, statistics, finance and economics.

Klappentext

A presentation of general results for discussing local optimality and computation of the expansion of value function and approximate solution of optimization problems, followed by their application to various fields, from physics to economics. The book is thus an opportunity for popularizing these techniques among researchers involved in other sciences, including users of optimization in a wide sense, in mechanics, physics, statistics, finance and economics. Of use to research professionals, including graduate students at an advanced level.

Inhalt
Basic notation.- Introduction.- Background material.- Optimality conditions.- Basic perturbation theory.- Second order analysis of the optimal value and optimal solutions.- Optimal Control.- References.