Equivalence and abnormal-Carathéodory-equivalence of optimal control problems
In the terminology of Constantin Carathéodory, two problems are Carathéodory-equivalent when their respective Lagrangians differ by a total derivative; the corresponding extremals are then related. The source further considers the analogous notion for abnormal extremals, called abnormal-Carathéodory-equivalence. Abnormal-Carathéodory equivalence conjecture. Two problems of optimal control are equivalent if, and only if, they are abnormal-Carathéodory-equivalent. The claim would identify ordinary equivalence with the correspondence of abnormal extremals and is motivated by the observation that Carathéodory-equivalent problems have the same conservation laws; its status is not resolved in the supplied source.
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Delfim F. M. Torres, “Caratheodory-Equivalence, Noether Theorems, and Tonelli Full-Regularity in the Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control”, arXiv:math/0206230 (2002).
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