A class of optimal control problems arising in systems with distributed parameters is considered. Pontryagin’s maximum principle is shown to be a necessary condition for optimality. Under certain convexity assumptions, it is shown that the maximum principle gives a sufficient condition for optimality.
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Earl Barnes (1971) studied this question.
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